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