Preventing fork bombs on a Linux system is easy.
How to prevent a fork bomb from damaging your Linux system by limiting processes.
How to prevent a fork bomb from damaging your Linux system by limiting processes.
How to get just the PID of a running process. There are a couple of very useful ways to get the Process ID of a running process. This is a way using grep and awk. This prints multiple numbers if there are multiple related processes running, like the Apache2 server for example. 4.4 Fri Nov … Read more
This command will print the number of running processes on a Linux system. 4.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps aux | wc -l 2554.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps aux | wc -l 255 Here is a nice alternative that will work on Ubuntu. The landscape-common package will install this utility. … Read more
The Linux command-line has many powerful tools for viewing and managing running processes on your UNIX/Linux machine. The lsof command is a very useful command, it will display a list of all open files owned by active processes running on your system. Below is an excerpt from the output this command will give you. root@deusexmachina:/home/neo# … Read more
Killing a running task UNIX style in Windows 7 is very easy indeed, the tasklist command makes this just as easy as it is in UNIX/Linux.Just type tasklist in the command prompt and it will display a list of running processes. Then look for the PID of the process you want to kill and type … Read more