source: BOOK/final-system/common/procps-ng.xml@ d4587d5

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<sect1 id="ch-system-procps-ng" role="wrap">
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  <title>Procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</title>

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

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

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

  </sect2>

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

    <para os="a">Prepare procps-ng for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix= \
    --libdir=/usr/lib --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
    --disable-kill</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist os="c">
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--disable-kill</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This switch disables building the <command>kill</command>
          program - a better version was installed by the Util-linux package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <note os="note1">
      <para>When using the boot method, two tests will fail if the hostname is
      not set. If you have booted the temporary system, and want to run the
      test suite, run the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
    </note>

    <para os="f">If running the testsuite, first disable a test which fails
    when scripting does not use a tty device:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput remap="test">sed -i -r 's|(pmap_initname)\\\$|\1|' testsuite/pmap.test/pmap.exp
make check</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para os="j">Move essential files to a location that can be found if
    <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is not mounted:</para>

<screen os="k"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/pidof /bin
mv -v /usr/lib/libprocps.so.* /lib
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libprocps.so) /usr/lib/libprocps.so</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-procps-ng" 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, watch</seg>
        <seg>libprocps.{a,so}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/proc, /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-ng 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-ng 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-ng 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-ng 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-ng 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-ng ps">
            <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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

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

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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