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Last change on this file since cc07a72 was e6423a01, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

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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 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-procps" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="procps.html"?>
10
11 <title>Procps-&procps-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps">
14 <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Procps package contains programs for monitoring
21 processes.</para>
22
23 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Ncurses</seg>
28 </seglistitem>
29 </segmentedlist>
30
31 </sect2>
32
33 <sect2 role="installation">
34 <title>Installation of Procps</title>
35
36 <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
37
38<screen os="b"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="c">Install the package:</para>
41
42<screen os="d"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
43
44 </sect2>
45
46 <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content">
47 <title>Contents of Procps</title>
48
49 <segmentedlist>
50 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
51 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
52
53 <seglistitem>
54 <seg>free, kill, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload,
55 top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
56 <seg>libproc.so</seg>
57 </seglistitem>
58 </segmentedlist>
59
60 <variablelist>
61 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
62 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
63 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
64
65 <varlistentry id="free">
66 <term><command>free</command></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>Reports the amount of free and used memory (both physical and
69 swap memory) in the system</para>
70 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free">
71 <primary sortas="b-free">free</primary>
72 </indexterm>
73 </listitem>
74 </varlistentry>
75
76 <varlistentry id="kill">
77 <term><command>kill</command></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>Sends signals to processes</para>
80 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps kill">
81 <primary sortas="b-kill">kill</primary>
82 </indexterm>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85
86 <varlistentry id="pgrep">
87 <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
90 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep">
91 <primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary>
92 </indexterm>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry id="pkill">
97 <term><command>pkill</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>Signals processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill">
101 <primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary>
102 </indexterm>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry id="pmap">
107 <term><command>pmap</command></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>Reports the memory map of the given process</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap">
111 <primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="ps">
117 <term><command>ps</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Lists the current running processes</para>
120 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps">
121 <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
122 </indexterm>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125
126 <varlistentry id="skill">
127 <term><command>skill</command></term>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>Sends signals to processes matching the given criteria</para>
130 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill">
131 <primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary>
132 </indexterm>
133 </listitem>
134 </varlistentry>
135
136 <varlistentry id="snice">
137 <term><command>snice</command></term>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given
140 criteria</para>
141 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice">
142 <primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary>
143 </indexterm>
144 </listitem>
145 </varlistentry>
146
147 <varlistentry id="sysctl">
148 <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>Modifies kernel parameters at run time</para>
151 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl">
152 <primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary>
153 </indexterm>
154 </listitem>
155 </varlistentry>
156
157 <varlistentry id="tload">
158 <term><command>tload</command></term>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>Prints a graph of the current system load average</para>
161 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload">
162 <primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary>
163 </indexterm>
164 </listitem>
165 </varlistentry>
166
167 <varlistentry id="top">
168 <term><command>top</command></term>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>Displays a list of the most CPU intensive processes; it
171 provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time</para>
172 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top">
173 <primary sortas="b-top">top</primary>
174 </indexterm>
175 </listitem>
176 </varlistentry>
177
178 <varlistentry id="uptime">
179 <term><command>uptime</command></term>
180 <listitem>
181 <para>Reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
182 logged on, and the system load averages</para>
183 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime">
184 <primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188
189 <varlistentry id="vmstat">
190 <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>Reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about
193 processes, memory, paging, block Input/Output (IO), traps, and CPU
194 activity</para>
195 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat">
196 <primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary>
197 </indexterm>
198 </listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry id="w">
202 <term><command>w</command></term>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>Shows which users are currently logged on, where, and since
205 when</para>
206 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w">
207 <primary sortas="b-w">w</primary>
208 </indexterm>
209 </listitem>
210 </varlistentry>
211
212 <varlistentry id="watch">
213 <term><command>watch</command></term>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>Runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first
216 screen-full of its output; this allows a user to watch the output
217 change over time</para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch">
219 <primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="libproc">
225 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc</filename></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
228 package</para>
229 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc">
230 <primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary>
231 </indexterm>
232 </listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
235 </variablelist>
236
237 </sect2>
238
239</sect1>
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