[e69a59f] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Procps-&procps-contversion;</title>
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[6370fa6] | 2 |
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[bdc08c1] | 3 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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| 4 | <para>free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top,
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| 5 | uptime, vmstat, w and watch</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[bdc08c1] | 7 | <sect3><title>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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[53ad30a] | 38 | specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if
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[bdc08c1] | 39 | none is specified).</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>uptime</title>
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[b822811] | 46 | <para>uptime gives a one line display of the following information: the current
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[6370fa6] | 47 | time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently
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[b822811] | 48 | logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | minutes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 50 |
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[bdc08c1] | 51 | <sect4><title>vmstat</title>
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[b822811] | 52 | <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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[bdc08c1] | 53 | traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 54 |
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[bdc08c1] | 55 | <sect4><title>w</title>
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[b822811] | 56 | <para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
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[bdc08c1] | 57 | their processes.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 58 |
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[bdc08c1] | 59 | <sect4><title>watch</title>
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[b822811] | 60 | <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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[bdc08c1] | 61 | screen full).</para></sect4>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | </sect3>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <sect3><title>Library Files</title>
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| 66 | <para>libproc.so</para></sect3>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <sect4><title>libproc</title>
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| 71 | <para>libproc is the library against which most of the programs in this
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| 72 | set are linked to save disk space by implementing common functions only
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| 73 | once.</para></sect4>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 76 |
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| 77 | </sect2>
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| 78 |
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