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author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000 |
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committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000 |
commit | bdc08c1c6419be50edb433c4425481bdabf8a5ea (patch) | |
tree | b93620a39c60088e399ecfd4cfb667a62ea0ec21 /appendixa/procps-desc.xml | |
parent | 76c0b783eeb766c0dec8e66dab2e6c275ba0786d (diff) |
[Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml index c330c8ab7..f4daaf1e0 100644 --- a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml @@ -1,60 +1,78 @@ -<sect2> -<title>Contents</title> +<sect2><title>Contents of procps-&procps-contversion;</title> -<para>The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice, -sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.</para> +<sect3><title>Program Files</title> +<para>free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, +uptime, vmstat, w and watch</para></sect3> -</sect2> - -<sect2><title>Description</title> +<sect3><title>Descriptions</title> -<sect3><title>free</title> +<sect4><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></sect3> +kernel.</para></sect4> + +<sect4><title>kill</title> +<para>kills sends signals to processes.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>kill</title> -<para>kills sends signals to processes.</para></sect3> +<sect4><title>oldps and ps</title> +<para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>oldps and ps</title> -<para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para></sect3> +<sect4><title>pgrep</title> +<para>pgrep looks up processes based on name and other attributes</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>skill</title> -<para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para></sect3> +<sect4><title>pkill</title> +<para>pkill signals processes based on name and other attributes</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>snice</title> +<sect4><title>skill</title> +<para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para></sect4> + +<sect4><title>snice</title> <para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a -criteria.</para></sect3> +criteria.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>sysctl</title> -<para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect3> +<sect4><title>sysctl</title> +<para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>tload</title> +<sect4><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></sect3> +none is specified).</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>top</title> +<sect4><title>top</title> <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity -in real time.</para></sect3> +in real time.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>uptime</title> +<sect4><title>uptime</title> <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></sect3> +minutes.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>vmstat</title> +<sect4><title>vmstat</title> <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, -traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect3> +traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>w</title> +<sect4><title>w</title> <para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and -their processes.</para></sect3> +their processes.</para></sect4> -<sect3><title>watch</title> +<sect4><title>watch</title> <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first -screen full).</para></sect3> +screen full).</para></sect4> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>Library Files</title> +<para>libproc.so</para></sect3> + +<sect3><title>Descriptions</title> + +<sect4><title>libproc</title> +<para>libproc is the library against which most of the programs in this +set are linked to save disk space by implementing common functions only +once.</para></sect4> + +</sect3> </sect2> |