I am trying to start elasticsearch as a process and stop it without closing the command prompt. For creating a new process, I am using: C:\Users\User1\Desktop\Work\ElasticSearch\elasticsearch-1.3....

When a process is in execution, the contents of the PCB (which is in kernel memory space?) are loaded onto the CPU registers, and status registers, kernel stack pointers, user stack pointers, etc. ...

I have a bash script that does some parallel processing in a loop. I don't want the parallel process to spike the CPU, so I use a sleep command. Here's a simplified version. (while true;do sleep ...

PHP's pcntl_fork function is supposed to fork a process just as the standard fork function in C. But I was wondering if this function really forks the process or if it emulates that behavior in a d...

I created a script that runs in the background using the ignore_user_abort() function. However, I was foolish enough not to insert any sort of code to make the script stop and now it is sending e-m...

Problem: I want to implement several php-worker processes who are listening on a MQ-server queue for asynchronous jobs. The problem now is that simply running this processes as daemons on a server ...

I want to use Boost Process eventhough it has not been release yet. I did svn co svn://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/process/ boost-process added boost-process to include path (-I) and #includ...

Ryan Tomayko touched off quite a fire storm with this post about using Unix process control commands. We should be doing more of this. A lot more of this. I'm talking about fork(2), execve(2), p...

I'm familiar with and use shutdown in Linux, and typically just do > shutdown -h now But is there a way to stop shutdown from happening, say if I aim to shutdown 10 minutes from now and th...