source: chapter08/procps.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-procps" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="procps-ng.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>procps-ng</productname>
    <productnumber>&procps-ng-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&procps-ng-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps">
    <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps-ng</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Procps-ng package contains programs for monitoring processes.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&procps-ng-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&procps-ng-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Procps-ng</title>

    <para>Prepare Procps-ng for compilation:</para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
            --disable-static                        \
            --disable-kill</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
            --disable-static                        \
            --disable-kill                          \
            --with-systemd</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--disable-kill</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This switch disables building the <command>kill</command>
          command; it will be installed from the Util-linux package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen revision='sysv'><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<screen revision='systemd'><userinput remap="make">make src_w_LDADD='$(LDADD) -lsystemd'</userinput></screen>

    <!-- To editors: "pmap {X,XX} with unreachable process" tests don't work
         as root.  They may seem to pass due to some Tcl/Expect/DejaGNU
         internal hazards with some "luck" though.  -->
    <para>To run the test suite, run:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .
su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>

    <para>One test named
    <literal>ps with output flag bsdtime,cputime,etime,etimes</literal>
    is known to fail if the host kernel is not built with
    <literal>CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT</literal> enabled.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Procps-ng</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>free, pgrep, pidof, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, slabtop,
        sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
        <seg>libproc-2.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/procps and /usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="free">
        <term><command>free</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports the amount of free and used memory (both physical and
          swap memory) in the system</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free">
            <primary sortas="b-free">free</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pgrep">
        <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pidof">
        <term><command>pidof</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports the PIDs of the given programs</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pidof">
            <primary sortas="b-pidof">pidof</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkill">
        <term><command>pkill</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Signals processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill">
            <primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pmap">
        <term><command>pmap</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports the memory map of the given process</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap">
            <primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ps">
        <term><command>ps</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Lists the current running processes</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps">
            <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <!-- <varlistentry id="pwait">
        <term><command>pwait</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Waits for a process to finish before executing.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pwait">
            <primary sortas="b-pwait">pwait</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry> This program no longer exists; 
      it's already been removed from the Installed programs list. -->

      <varlistentry id="pwdx">
        <term><command>pwdx</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports the current working directory of a process</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pwdx">
            <primary sortas="b-pwdx">pwdx</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="slabtop">
        <term><command>slabtop</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps slabtop">
            <primary sortas="b-slabtop">slabtop</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="sysctl">
        <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Modifies kernel parameters at run time</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl">
            <primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="tload">
        <term><command>tload</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Prints a graph of the current system load average</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload">
            <primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="top">
        <term><command>top</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Displays a list of the most CPU intensive processes; it
          provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top">
            <primary sortas="b-top">top</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="uptime">
        <term><command>uptime</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
          logged on, and the system load averages</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime">
            <primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="vmstat">
        <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about
          processes, memory, paging, block Input/Output (IO), traps, and CPU
          activity</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat">
            <primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="w">
        <term><command>w</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Shows which users are currently logged on, where, and since
          when</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w">
            <primary sortas="b-w">w</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="watch">
        <term><command>watch</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first
          screen-full of its output; this allows a user to watch the output
          change over time</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch">
            <primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libproc-2">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc-2</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
          package</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc-2">
            <primary sortas="c-libproc-2">libproc-2</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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