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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>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<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>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>kill</title>
+
+<para>
+kills sends signals to processes.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>oldps and ps</title>
+
+<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>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>snice</title>
+
+<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>
+
+</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>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>top</title>
+
+<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 
+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>
+
+<sect3><title>vmstat</title>
+
+<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>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>watch</title>
+
+<para>
+watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screenfull).
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+