| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice,
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| 5 | sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.</para>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | </sect2>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect3><title>free</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
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| 14 | in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the
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| 15 | kernel.</para>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | </sect3>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect3><title>kill</title>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>kills sends signals to processes.</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | </sect3>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect3><title>oldps and ps</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | </sect3>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3><title>skill</title>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | </sect3>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect3><title>snice</title>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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| 40 | criteria.</para>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | </sect3>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <sect3><title>sysctl</title>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | </sect3>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <sect3><title>tload</title>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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| 53 | specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if none is specified).</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | </sect3>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <sect3><title>top</title>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.</para>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | </sect3>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect3><title>uptime</title>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>uptime gives a one line display of the following information: the current
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| 66 | time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently
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| 67 | logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15
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| 68 | minutes.</para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | </sect3>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <sect3><title>vmstat</title>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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| 75 | traps, and cpu activity.</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | </sect3>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <sect3><title>w</title>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
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| 82 | their processes.</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | </sect3>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <sect3><title>watch</title>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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| 89 | screen full).</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | </sect3>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | </sect2>
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| 94 |
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