Command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by Linux to provide information about the status of entries in its process table.
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Jim Warner 9e85c147b2 build-sys: tweak to prevent dirty tree with every make
Please let's stop the nls translation insanity. With a
one time push we can eliminate the dirty tree syndrome
which surfaces with every local build. Later, before a
release, the translations can be updated in final form
then pushed just 1 more time to the gitlab repository.

I'm tired of having to always re-issue this request in
order to circumvent the problem and thus prevent a too
broad commit (not to mention some nasty side effects).

[ bash$ git update-index --assume-unchanged po/??.po ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/procpsng-translations

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-21 08:07:51 +10:00
contrib miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
Documentation miscellaneous: remove some trailing whitespace buildup 2015-06-20 07:46:23 +10:00
include Also emulate error_at_line if not present 2014-08-28 13:54:24 +02:00
lib Create test process 2015-06-13 15:04:31 +10:00
man-po revert pl.po file 2015-06-14 09:08:01 +10:00
misc
po build-sys: tweak to prevent dirty tree with every make 2015-06-21 08:07:51 +10:00
proc miscellaneous: remove some trailing whitespace buildup 2015-06-20 07:46:23 +10:00
ps library: Change linux version 2015-06-19 21:00:46 +10:00
testsuite testsuite: fix ps signals test 2015-06-14 15:20:48 +10:00
top top: sacrifice a redundant procps_linux_version() call 2015-06-21 08:05:59 +10:00
.gitignore build-sys: merge automake subdirs into toplevel 2015-05-01 23:19:31 -07:00
AUTHORS Changed git site to gitlab 2015-05-10 14:57:50 +10:00
autogen.sh Fix a remaining util-linux word in autogen 2012-02-26 08:39:16 +11:00
ChangeLog Changed git site to gitlab 2015-05-10 14:57:50 +10:00
configure.ac Merge branch 'filbranden/procps-build_sys_cleanup_usrbin' 2015-05-10 15:28:56 +10:00
COPYING
COPYING.LIB miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
create-man-pot.sh docs: with systemd now in library, remember openproc.3 2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
free.1 miscellaneous: remove some trailing whitespace buildup 2015-06-20 07:46:23 +10:00
free.c free: Use IEC units 2015-04-03 19:18:58 +11:00
INSTALL.md docs: Updated documentation 2015-05-10 17:23:54 +10:00
kill.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
Makefile.am build-sys: fix oversight for a newly added header file 2015-06-20 07:46:16 +10:00
NEWS Changed git site to gitlab 2015-05-10 14:57:50 +10:00
pgrep.1 pgrep: Enable case-insensitive process matching 2015-05-10 17:42:09 +10:00
pgrep.c library: remove procps_version functions 2015-06-18 22:37:24 +10:00
pidof.1 pidof: support for omitted %PPID and additional separators 2013-10-14 15:38:33 +02:00
pidof.c Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
pkill.1
pmap.1 pmap: Including -p in the man page 2013-11-26 13:45:22 +01:00
pmap.c fix integer overflow on 2GiB+ maps on 32-bit platforms 2015-06-20 21:39:41 +10:00
pwdx.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
pwdx.c pwdx: fails when run in a nonexistent locale 2013-08-05 20:52:22 +10:00
README.md miscellaneous: remove some trailing whitespace buildup 2015-06-20 07:46:23 +10:00
skill.1 skill: support namespaces 2013-04-18 13:59:44 -04:00
skill.c skill: fix command line with signal 2015-01-24 17:11:11 +11:00
slabtop.1 procps: Add a zero-width break point in slabtop.1 2015-06-01 22:04:40 +10:00
slabtop.c 'slabtop -o' with stdin not a tty would complain 2015-01-24 17:27:12 +11:00
snice.1
sysctl.8 docs: Fix typos in slabtop.1, sysctl.8 and uptime.1 2014-09-16 19:35:28 +02:00
sysctl.c sysctl: finalizing the GLOB_* flags check 2014-08-28 15:48:29 +02:00
sysctl.conf
sysctl.conf.5 docs: Fix typos in sysctl.8 and sysctl.conf.5 2014-09-15 16:24:59 +02:00
tload.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
tload.c tload: fix lockup 2014-08-27 18:59:27 +02:00
translate-man.sh Fixed translate-man.sh for no top ps 2014-05-28 20:12:33 +10:00
uptime.1 docs: Fix typos in slabtop.1, sysctl.8 and uptime.1 2014-09-16 19:35:28 +02:00
uptime.c Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/2' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/2 2013-09-11 20:50:48 +10:00
vmstat.8 library: reverting tmpfs subtraction from cached (18-FEB-2014) 2014-04-30 13:59:34 +02:00
vmstat.c Use <dirent.h> instead of <sys/dir.h> 2014-08-26 16:01:57 +02:00
w.1 sysctl, w: miscelaneous usage/man fixes 2013-07-19 14:50:02 +02:00
w.c w: fixing missing '-' in the FROM field when empty 2015-03-02 18:41:07 +01:00
watch.1 watch: typo in man (closign->closing) 2014-09-12 14:22:48 +02:00
watch.c watch: treat <ESC>[m as <ESC>[0m 2015-02-25 18:40:53 +01:00

procps

procps is a set of command line and full-screen utilities that provide information out of the pseudo-filesystem 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 run-time
  • tload - Graphical representation of system load average
  • top - Dynamic real-time 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

Reporting Bugs

There are a few ways of reporting bugs or feature requests:

  1. Your distributions bug reporter. If you are using a distribution your first port of call is their bug tracker. This is because each distribution has their own patches and way of dealing with bugs. Also bug reporting often does not need any subscription to websites.
  2. GitLab Issues - To the left of this page is the issue tracker. You can report bugs here.
  3. Email list - We have an email list (see below) where you can report bugs. The problem with this method is bug reports often get lost and cannot be tracked. This is especially a big problem when its something that will take time to resolve.

If you need to report bugs, there is more details on the Bug Reporting page.

Email List

The email list for the developers and users of procps is found at http://www.freelists.org/archive/procps/ This email list discusses the development of procps and is used by distributions to also forward or discuss bugs.