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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
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-<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>