| 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 | <para>free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
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| 13 | in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the
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| 14 | kernel.</para></sect3>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect3><title>kill</title>
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| 17 | <para>kills sends signals to processes.</para></sect3>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect3><title>oldps and ps</title>
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| 20 | <para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para></sect3>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect3><title>skill</title>
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| 23 | <para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para></sect3>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect3><title>snice</title>
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| 26 | <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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| 27 | criteria.</para></sect3>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>sysctl</title>
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| 30 | <para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect3>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>tload</title>
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| 33 | <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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| 34 | specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if
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| 35 | none is specified).</para></sect3>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect3><title>top</title>
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| 38 | <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity
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| 39 | in real time.</para></sect3>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect3><title>uptime</title>
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| 42 | <para>uptime gives a one line display of the following information: the current
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| 43 | time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently
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| 44 | logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15
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| 45 | minutes.</para></sect3>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <sect3><title>vmstat</title>
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| 48 | <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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| 49 | traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect3>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <sect3><title>w</title>
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| 52 | <para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
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| 53 | their processes.</para></sect3>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <sect3><title>watch</title>
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| 56 | <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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| 57 | screen full).</para></sect3>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | </sect2>
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| 60 |
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