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Linux /proc/sys/kernel: where are the files sysrq-sticky, sysrq-key, and sysrq-timer?
Documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (section 5.3.9.3) mentions these files in /proc/sys/kernel/:
sysrq
sysrq-key
sysrq-sticky
sysrq-timer
The documentation for RHEL 5 also mentions them.
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Arch linux : pacman does not work when chrooting
I have Ubuntu installed on my computer. I decided to install Arch linux, but I skipped the part about Grub installation as it is already installed. Seeing that Arch does not show up in Grub's menu ...
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iotop but for particular disk?
Is there a tool like iotop but for monitoring IO on specific volumes? (Or perhaps I missed a way to filter iotop?) If not is there any way to get at this information via (say)/proc? (dstat etc. ...
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/proc/net/wireless does not show values unless run as root
cat /proc/net/wireless does not show statistics for wireless devices unless it is run as root, even though the permissions on the file are 444. The same seems to apply when accessing statistics via ...
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Viewing shared segments created by shmget
I'm trying to "visualize" shared memory between two processes. I've created a little server-client example where the client writes some data to a shared memory location and the server reads from it. ...
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Determine how much a process is using each disk?
How do I tell how much load a particular process is contributing to each of several available volumes/mounts? Seems that dstat only shows aggregate stats across all processes per disk, and iotop only ...
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Process VSS and Size: entry in /proc/pid/smaps
I was wondering why the sum of all 'Size:' entries in /proc/pid/smaps does not equal the process VSS as reported by top, ps, /proc/pid/status VmSize, /proc/pid/statm 1st entry?
Any clues?
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Rogue Java process brings my computer to a halt
In reference to my earlier post: Is there a log of past threads that are now closed?
I gave the process a kill -STOP signal and started examining the details. I can't seem to figure out why it is ...
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Very large values for utime and stime for foo. Is foo still running?
I am running a program foo
It has been running for close to 30 days now (even more)
Until around 10 days ago (I cannot be very exact) it used 100% of one cpu on my dual core laptop (it was at the ...
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create a /proc symlink
I'm trying to build a module using the method shown in this answer.
Basically I need to create a symlink I got it to build, when I try to load it using insmod I get:
-1 invalid module format
and ...
