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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-procps" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="procps.html"?>
12
13 <title>Procps-&procps-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps">
16 <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <sect2 role="package">
20 <title/>
21
22 <para>The Procps package contains programs for monitoring
23 processes.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29 <seglistitem>
30 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
32 </seglistitem>
33 </segmentedlist>
34
35 <segmentedlist>
36 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
37
38 <seglistitem>
39 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Ncurses</seg>
40 </seglistitem>
41 </segmentedlist>
42
43 </sect2>
44
45 <sect2 role="installation">
46 <title>Installation of Procps</title>
47
48 <para>Compile the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para>Install the package:</para>
53
54<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
55
56 </sect2>
57
58 <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content">
59 <title>Contents of Procps</title>
60
61 <segmentedlist>
62 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
63 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
64
65 <seglistitem>
66 <seg>free, kill, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload,
67 top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
68 <seg>libproc.so</seg>
69 </seglistitem>
70 </segmentedlist>
71
72 <variablelist>
73 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
74 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
75 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
76
77 <varlistentry id="free">
78 <term><command>free</command></term>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>Reports the amount of free and used memory (both physical and
81 swap memory) in the system</para>
82 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free">
83 <primary sortas="b-free">free</primary>
84 </indexterm>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 <varlistentry id="kill">
89 <term><command>kill</command></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>Sends signals to processes</para>
92 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps kill">
93 <primary sortas="b-kill">kill</primary>
94 </indexterm>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry id="pgrep">
99 <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep">
103 <primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry id="pkill">
109 <term><command>pkill</command></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>Signals processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
112 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill">
113 <primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary>
114 </indexterm>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry id="pmap">
119 <term><command>pmap</command></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>Reports the memory map of the given process</para>
122 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap">
123 <primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary>
124 </indexterm>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127
128 <varlistentry id="ps">
129 <term><command>ps</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Lists the current running processes</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps">
133 <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
134 </indexterm>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry id="skill">
139 <term><command>skill</command></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Sends signals to processes matching the given criteria</para>
142 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill">
143 <primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary>
144 </indexterm>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry id="snice">
149 <term><command>snice</command></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given
152 criteria</para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice">
154 <primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="sysctl">
160 <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Modifies kernel parameters at run time</para>
163 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl">
164 <primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary>
165 </indexterm>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>
168
169 <varlistentry id="tload">
170 <term><command>tload</command></term>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>Prints a graph of the current system load average</para>
173 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload">
174 <primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary>
175 </indexterm>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
179 <varlistentry id="top">
180 <term><command>top</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>Displays a list of the most CPU intensive processes; it
183 provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time</para>
184 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top">
185 <primary sortas="b-top">top</primary>
186 </indexterm>
187 </listitem>
188 </varlistentry>
189
190 <varlistentry id="uptime">
191 <term><command>uptime</command></term>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>Reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
194 logged on, and the system load averages</para>
195 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime">
196 <primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary>
197 </indexterm>
198 </listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry id="vmstat">
202 <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>Reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about
205 processes, memory, paging, block Input/Output (IO), traps, and CPU
206 activity</para>
207 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat">
208 <primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary>
209 </indexterm>
210 </listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
213 <varlistentry id="w">
214 <term><command>w</command></term>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>Shows which users are currently logged on, where, and since
217 when</para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w">
219 <primary sortas="b-w">w</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="watch">
225 <term><command>watch</command></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>Runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first
228 screen-full of its output; this allows a user to watch the output
229 change over time</para>
230 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch">
231 <primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary>
232 </indexterm>
233 </listitem>
234 </varlistentry>
235
236 <varlistentry id="libproc">
237 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc</filename></term>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
240 package</para>
241 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc">
242 <primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary>
243 </indexterm>
244 </listitem>
245 </varlistentry>
246
247 </variablelist>
248
249 </sect2>
250
251</sect1>
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