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Some troubleshooting techniques for background processes on Windows
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Windows Troubleshooting

Using background processes on windows, especially if connected through ssh, might be painful. Here's a collection of (some of) the problems that I ran into while using Windows.

Available RAM:

You can get the amount of available RAM (free equivalent command) by typing:

wmic ComputerSystem get TotalPhysicalMemory

Stop a process

When you start a background process with start (nohup equivalent) you might want to stop it:

:: identify the processes (supposing that python.exe is what you want to locate)
wmic process where "name='python.exe'" get ProcessId,CommandLine

:: kill it with
taskkill /PID <PID> /F

Remove a folder with its content

rm -rf <fold> equivalent:

rd /s /q <fold>
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