[50415c9] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[50415c9] | 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[50415c9] | 5 | <para>Last checked against version &procps-contversion;.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[50415c9] | 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect4><title>free</title>
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[b822811] | 10 | <para>free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
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| 11 | in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the
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[bdc08c1] | 12 | kernel.</para></sect4>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <sect4><title>kill</title>
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| 15 | <para>kills sends signals to processes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 16 |
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[bdc08c1] | 17 | <sect4><title>oldps and ps</title>
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| 18 | <para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 19 |
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[bdc08c1] | 20 | <sect4><title>pgrep</title>
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[335838c] | 21 | <para>pgrep looks up processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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[bdc08c1] | 23 | <sect4><title>pkill</title>
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[335838c] | 24 | <para>pkill signals processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 25 |
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[bdc08c1] | 26 | <sect4><title>skill</title>
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| 27 | <para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para></sect4>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect4><title>snice</title>
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[b822811] | 30 | <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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[bdc08c1] | 31 | criteria.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 32 |
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[bdc08c1] | 33 | <sect4><title>sysctl</title>
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| 34 | <para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 35 |
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[bdc08c1] | 36 | <sect4><title>tload</title>
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[b822811] | 37 | <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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[6a9875d] | 38 | specified tty or, if none is specified, the tty of the tload
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| 39 | process.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[bdc08c1] | 41 | <sect4><title>top</title>
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[53ad30a] | 42 | <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity
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[bdc08c1] | 43 | in real time.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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[bdc08c1] | 45 | <sect4><title>vmstat</title>
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[b822811] | 46 | <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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[6a9875d] | 47 | traps and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | <sect4><title>w</title>
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[6a9875d] | 50 | <para>w displays information about the users, and their processes,
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| 51 | currently on the machine.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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[bdc08c1] | 53 | <sect4><title>watch</title>
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[b822811] | 54 | <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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[bdc08c1] | 55 | screen full).</para></sect4>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | </sect3>
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| 58 |
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[50415c9] | 59 | <sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
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[bdc08c1] | 60 |
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| 61 | <sect4><title>libproc</title>
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| 62 | <para>libproc is the library against which most of the programs in this
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| 63 | set are linked to save disk space by implementing common functions only
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| 64 | once.</para></sect4>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 67 |
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| 68 | </sect2>
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