1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Procps</title>
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3 | <para>Last checked against version &procps-contversion;.</para>
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5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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6 | <para>free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top,
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7 | vmstat, w and watch</para></sect3>
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8 |
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9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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11 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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16 | <sect4><title>kill</title>
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17 | <para>kills sends signals to processes.</para></sect4>
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19 | <sect4><title>oldps and ps</title>
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20 | <para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para></sect4>
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21 |
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22 | <sect4><title>pgrep</title>
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23 | <para>pgrep looks up processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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24 |
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25 | <sect4><title>pkill</title>
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26 | <para>pkill signals processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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27 |
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28 | <sect4><title>skill</title>
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29 | <para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para></sect4>
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31 | <sect4><title>snice</title>
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32 | <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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33 | criteria.</para></sect4>
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35 | <sect4><title>sysctl</title>
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36 | <para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect4>
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38 | <sect4><title>tload</title>
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39 | <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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40 | specified tty or, if none is specified, the tty of the tload
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41 | process.</para></sect4>
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42 |
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43 | <sect4><title>top</title>
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44 | <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity
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45 | in real time.</para></sect4>
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47 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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50 |
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51 | <sect4><title>w</title>
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52 | <para>w displays information about the users, and their processes,
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53 | currently on the machine.</para></sect4>
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54 |
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55 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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58 |
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59 | </sect3>
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60 |
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61 | <sect3><title>Library Files</title>
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62 | <para>libproc.so</para></sect3>
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63 |
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64 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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65 |
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66 | <sect4><title>libproc</title>
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67 | <para>libproc is the library against which most of the programs in this
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68 | set are linked to save disk space by implementing common functions only
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69 | once.</para></sect4>
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71 | </sect3>
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72 |
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73 | </sect2>
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74 |
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