| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>Last checked against version &procps-contversion;.</para>
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| 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <sect4><title>free</title>
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| 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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| 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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| 16 |
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| 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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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect4><title>pgrep</title>
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| 21 | <para>pgrep looks up processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect4><title>pkill</title>
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| 24 | <para>pkill signals processes based on name and other attributes.</para></sect4>
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| 25 |
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| 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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| 30 | <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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| 31 | criteria.</para></sect4>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect4><title>sysctl</title>
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| 34 | <para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect4>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect4><title>tload</title>
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| 37 | <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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| 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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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect4><title>top</title>
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| 42 | <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity
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| 43 | in real time.</para></sect4>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect4><title>vmstat</title>
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| 46 | <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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| 47 | traps and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <sect4><title>w</title>
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| 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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| 52 |
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| 53 | <sect4><title>watch</title>
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| 54 | <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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| 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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| 59 | <sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
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| 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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| 67 |
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| 68 | </sect2>
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