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<sect2>
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<title>Contents</title>
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<para>The Procps package contains the free, kill, oldps, ps, skill, snice,
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sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch programs.</para>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<sect3><title>free</title>
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<para>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
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kernel.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>kill</title>
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<para>kills sends signals to processes.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>oldps and ps</title>
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<para>ps gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>skill</title>
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<para>skill sends signals to process matching a criteria.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>snice</title>
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<para>snice changes the scheduling priority for process matching a
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criteria.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>sysctl</title>
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<para>sysctl modifies kernel parameters at runtime.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>tload</title>
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<para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
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specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if none is specified).</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>top</title>
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<para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.</para>
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<sect3><title>uptime</title>
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<para>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
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minutes.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>vmstat</title>
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<para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
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traps, and cpu activity.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>w</title>
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<para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
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their processes.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>watch</title>
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<para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first
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screen full).</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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