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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000
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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
-<para>
-The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice,
-sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.
-</para>
+<para>The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice,
+sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -12,103 +10,83 @@ sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.
<sect3><title>free</title>
-<para>
-free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
-in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel.
-</para>
+<para>free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
+in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the
+kernel.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>kill</title>
-<para>
-kills sends signals to processes.
-</para>
+<para>kills sends signals to processes.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>oldps and ps</title>
-<para>
-ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.
-</para>
+<para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>skill</title>
-<para>
-skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.
-</para>
+<para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>snice</title>
-<para>
-snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a criteria.
-</para>
+<para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
+criteria.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>sysctl</title>
-<para>
-sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.
-</para>
+<para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>tload</title>
-<para>
-tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the specified
-tty (or the tty of the tload process if none is specified).
-</para>
+<para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
+specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if none is specified).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>top</title>
-<para>
-top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.
-</para>
+<para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>uptime</title>
-<para>
-uptime gives a one line display of the following information: the current
+<para>uptime gives a one line display of the following information: the current
time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently
-logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
-</para>
+logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15
+minutes.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>vmstat</title>
-<para>
-vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
-traps, and cpu activity.
-</para>
+<para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
+traps, and cpu activity.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>w</title>
-<para>
-w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
-their processes.
-</para>
+<para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
+their processes.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>watch</title>
-<para>
-watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen full).
-</para>
+<para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
+screen full).</para>
</sect3>