I am looking for a Java solution to finding the CPU usage for a running process in Windows. After looking around the web, there seems to be little information on a solution in Java. Keep in mind, I am ...

Recently, I have been asked a question in an interview what s the difference between a process and a thread. Really, I did not know the answer. I thought for a minute and gave a very weird answer. ...

I ll write a script that runs a program and wait for it finished. But if the program is not finished within a specified time I want that the program is killed.

I use Python 2.5.4. My computer: CPU AMD Phenom X3 720BE, Mainboard 780G, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 32 bit. I use Python threading but can not make every python.exe process consume 100% CPU. Why are they ...

I was wondering if someone can tell me what would be the best way to bring my application to the foreground if a mutex was not able to be created for a new instance. E.g.: Application X is running ...

I have two classes: Action class, that has a method for executing VBScript files, and Item class that contains a list of Action instances. My problem is that I want to limit the number of VBScript ...

Is there any reason why this script always returns "running", regardless of whether my process is started or stopped? if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep "processName" > /dev/null then echo $"...

Through my web interface I would like to start/stop certain processes and determine whether a started process is still running. My existing website is Python based and running on a Linux server, so ...