Debian -- Details of package procps in sid

Package: procps (2:3.3.12-3)

/proc file system utilities

This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").

It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.

Tags: System Administration: Monitoring, Implemented in: C, User Interface: interface::commandline, interface::text-mode, Role: Program, Scope: scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, Purpose: Checking, use::monitor, works-with::software:running

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