Top "Process" questions

This tag is about operating system processes.

Find (and kill) process locking port 3000 on Mac

How do I find (and kill) processes that listen to/use my tcp ports? I'm on mac os x. Sometimes, …

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How can I measure the actual memory usage of an application or process?

This question is covered here in great detail. How do you measure the memory usage of an application or process …

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What is the difference between a process and a thread?

What is the technical difference between a process and a thread? I get the feeling a word like 'process' is …

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How do I get the application exit code from a Windows command line?

I am running a program and want to see what its return code is (since it returns different codes based …

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How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?

I want to make a pause between two lines of code, Let me explain a bit: -> the user …

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How do I run a node.js app as a background service?

Since this post has gotten a lot of attention over the years, I've listed the top solutions per platform at …

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How to wait in bash for several subprocesses to finish and return exit code !=0 when any subprocess ends with code !=0?

How to wait in a bash script for several subprocesses spawned from that script to finish and return exit code !=0 …

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How do I execute a command and get the output of the command within C++ using POSIX?

I am looking for a way to get the output of a command when it is run from within a …

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How to start a background process in Python?

I'm trying to port a shell script to the much more readable python version. The original shell script starts several …

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Taskkill /f doesn't kill a process

When I start up an Experimental instance of VS from VS for debugging and stop debugging (sometimes directly from the …

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