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How to kill MY OWN idle ssh sessions
Don't run pkill sshd on a remote server, or you won't be able to reconnect: ssh: connect to host yourdomain.com port 22: Connection refused. Instead:
Run w. Find your idle command in the last column (...
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Where does the signal that causes EINTR come from?
Signals that cause a system call to return EINTR come from where signals normally come from. The behavior you describe can be caused by any signal that is caught by a signal handler.
I interpret your ...
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killall gives me `no process found ` but ps
Setting the name of the main thread with pthread_setname_np call will also cause killall and other command to fail even if the name of the process will stay the same with ps:
pthread_setname_np(...
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Create tree of processes
I'd suggest taking a snapshot of the processes currently running on the system. The absolute minimum that you'd need is each PID and its corresponding PPID:
ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=
This will give you ...
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How to list process with their depth?
On my OpenBSD system (also tested on Ubuntu):
$ ps -o pid=,ppid=,command= -ax | awk '{ parent[$1] = $2; cmd[$1] = $3 } function depth(p) { if (p == "" || p == 1) return 1; else return depth(...
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Can not stop nohup process
In my case, I was protecting laravel using nohup. I had to also kill the process bound to the port
use fuser 8080/tcp (change the port based on your own) and kill the PID found there.
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How to view a specific process in top
When your top does not know the -p option (top: invalid option -- 'p'), then you can get a similar result using the batch mode with -b:
top -b | grep java
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Why does Linux needs both pid_max and threads-max?
These settings don’t have the same effect:
threads-max limits the number of processes which can be instantiated simultaneously
pid_max limits the identifier assigned to processes
threads-max limits ...
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Can ps display only non kernel processes on Linux?
Although the question has aged a bit, there is an interesting new approach: Since version 4 of the procps package, you can set the environment variable LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL. If set, ps(1) and top(1) ...
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How could we get the USS of a process
The answer to Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps includes the instruction to do so. It doesn't hand out the exact command for USS specifically, but it provides all ...
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