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Originally Debian, Fedora and openSUSE fork of the procps utilities for monitoring your system and processes on your system.

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procps is a set of command line and fullscreen utilities that provide information out of the pseudofilesystem most commonly located at /proc. this filesystem provides a simple interface to the kernel data structures. the programs of procps generally concentrate on the structures that describe the processess running on the system.

the following programs are found in procps:

free report the amount of free and used memory in the system kill send a signal to a process based on pid pgrep list processes based on name or other attributes pkill send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes pmap report memory map of a process ps report information of processes pwdx report current directory of a process skill obsolete version of pgrep/pkill slabtop display kernel slab cache information in real time snice renice a process sysctl read or write kernel parameters at runtime tload graphical representation of system load average top dynamic realtime view of running processes uptime display how long the system has been running vmstat report virtual memory statistics w report logged in users and what they are doing watch execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

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