lfs-book/appendixa/procps-shortdesc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of Procps</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &procps-contversion;.)</para>

<para>The Procps package provides programs to monitor and
halt system processes. Procps gathers information about
processes via the <filename>/proc</filename> directory.</para>

<para>Procps installs the following:</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>free, kill, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, 
vmstat, w and watch</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
<para>libproc.so</para></sect3>

</sect2>