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System - System Processes

Overview

The system processes tool lets you view and manage processes running on the system. Among other uses, you can use this tool to diagnose potential system resource issues on busy ClarkConnect servers.

Purpose

In some circumstances, you may want to review how processes on your system are behaving. For example, you may want to:

• Determine which process is using the most memory/RAM.
• Determine which process is using most of the processor/CPU.
• Determine which process uses the most resources by total time.
• Kill unwanted processes.

Configuration

Show/Hide Idle

Most of the processes on the system are idle and waiting do a task. For example, the antivirus system will be idle unless it is actively performing a virus scan. You can show/hide the idle processes running on the system.

Show/Hide Details

By default, the simple process name is shown instead of the full (and often cryptic) process details. You have the option to show/hide the details of the processes.

Pause/Continue

Pauses/Continues the screen. This is useful when selecting processes to be killed.

Kill

Use this option with extreme caution! You can kill processes running on your system by following this procedure:

• Pause the process view using the Pause button.
• Select the processes to kill.
• Click on the Kill button.

Before attempting this procedure, you should attempt to stop or restart the software via the Running Services page in the web-based configuration tool.