System information

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide
system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep,
snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pdwx. The ps command
displays a snapshot of running processes. The top comm and provides
a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free
comm and displays the amounts of free and used memory on your
system . The skill com mand sends a terminate comm and (or another
specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice
comm and is used to change the scheduling priority of specified
processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system
load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the
current tim e, how long the system has been running, how m any users
are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five,
and fifteen minutes. The w comm and displays a list of the users
who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch
program watches a running program. The vm stat command displays
virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block
I/O, traps, and CPU activity. The pwdx com mand reports the current
working directory of a process or processes.
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psacct-6.3.2-4 1.1 - psacct-6.3.2-4 4 .el5
Group: Applications/System
Summary: Utilities for monitoring process activities.
Description:
The psacct package contains several utilities for monitoring process
activities, including ac, lastcomm , accton and sa. The ac command
displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The
lastcomm command displays information about previous executed
comm ands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off. The
sa command summarizes inform ation about previously executed
comm ands.
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psmisc-22.2-5 - psmisc-22.2-6
Group: Applications/System
Summary: Utilities for managing processes on your system.
Description:
The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your
system : pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree
structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall
comm and sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to
processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs
of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Release Notes
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