From bdc08c1c6419be50edb433c4425481bdabf8a5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:15:46 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/procps-desc.xml | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/procps-desc.xml') 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 @@ - -Contents +Contents of procps-&procps-contversion; -The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice, -sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs. +Program Files +free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, +uptime, vmstat, w and watch - - -Description +Descriptions -free +free 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. +kernel. + +kill +kills sends signals to processes. -kill -kills sends signals to processes. +oldps and ps +ps gives a snapshot of the current processes. -oldps and ps -ps gives a snapshot of the current processes. +pgrep +pgrep looks up processes based on name and other attributes -skill -skill sends signals to process matching a criteria. +pkill +pkill signals processes based on name and other attributes -snice +skill +skill sends signals to process matching a criteria. + +snice snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a -criteria. +criteria. -sysctl -sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime. +sysctl +sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime. -tload +tload 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). +none is specified). -top +top top provides an ongoing look at processor activity -in real time. +in real time. -uptime +uptime 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. +minutes. -vmstat +vmstat vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, -traps, and cpu activity. +traps, and cpu activity. -w +w w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and -their processes. +their processes. -watch +watch watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first -screen full). +screen full). + + + +Library Files +libproc.so + +Descriptions + +libproc +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. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf