I’m observing a high load average on a certain machine (about 9) in all three load fields. I understand load as the number of processes in state “run” / currently desiring CPU time. Am I correct at reasoning that if N processes are running on my machine this cannot produce a load greater than N?
Under Linux I can get a process’s uptime in seconds with:
I have a task running that blocks pm-hibernate (on Linux 4.0.7-2). When I try pm-hibernate there is an error message “Freezing of tasks failed after 20.002 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):” and the task is shown.
For Windows, I think Process Explorer shows you all the threads under a process.
Here is a common definition of a background process:
I’m learning about the relationship between processes, process groups (and sessions) in Linux.
cron jobs can run as any user, without that user being logged in.
ps(1), with the -f option, will output processes for which there is no associated command line in square brackets, like so:
How can I get the command arguments or the whole command line from a running process using its process name?
I’m looking for somthing like top is to CPU usage. Is there a command line argument for top that does this? Currently, my memory is so full that even ‘man top’ fails with out of memory 🙂