A technique for scheduling tasks to be run at a specific time or on a specific event.
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Bash Script on Startup? (Linux)
Is there any way to make/run a bash script on reboot
(like in Debian/Ubuntu for instance, since thats what my 2 boxes at home have)
Also, any recommended guides for doing cron jobs? I'm completely ...
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controlling priority of applications using cgroups
I would like to understand cgroups better and would like to understand the use-cases for applying cgroups.
Are cgroups a good way for prioritizing different applications (i.e, giving higher priority ...
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Bash while loop and reading from pipe
I have a Windows command-line program that I'm running in a Bash script in Ubuntu via wine. The Bash script basically looks like this:
wine myprogram.exe | while read line
do
# Process line
done
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High CPU usage with CFS?
I asked a previous question to try and isolate the source of an increase in CPU usage when moving an application from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6. The analysis that I did for that seems to indicate that it is ...
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how to queue a command to run after another command finishes?
Sometimes I start a program that takes a very long time to finish (emerge), then realize that I should go to bed instead of waiting for it. If I know this in the first place I would run
program; halt
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How can get a list of all scheduled cron jobs on my machine?
My sysadmin has set up a bunch of cron jobs on my machine. I'd like to know exactly what is scheduled for what time. How can I get that list?
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Isolating cause of higher CPU usage on RHEL 6 vs RHEL 5
I'm currently looking to move our system from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6, but I've run into a snag with unexpectedly high CPU usage on the RHEL 6 machines. It appears that this may be due at least in some part ...
