procps@3 ☆

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Description:
Utilities for browsing procfs

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Nov 13, 2024

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: system-monitoring process-management command-line unix sysadmin

Install: brew install procps@3

About:
procps@3 is a suite of command-line utilities for monitoring and managing system processes via the procfs pseudo-filesystem. It provides essential tools like ps, top, vmstat, and free for viewing process information, system resource usage, and memory statistics. Its value lies in offering reliable, standardized tools for system administration and performance analysis on Unix-like systems.

Key Features:

Provides the ps command for detailed process listing and filtering
Includes the top command for real-time system process and resource monitoring
Offers vmstat, free, and w for reporting virtual memory, memory usage, and logged-in users
Delivers kill, skill, and snice for sending signals and managing process priority
Supports the proc filesystem (/proc) for accessing kernel and process data

Use Cases:

System administration and real-time monitoring of server processes and resource consumption
Performance analysis and troubleshooting by developers and sysadmins using detailed system statistics

Alternatives:

htop – A more interactive, user-friendly process viewer with a curses interface, but procps provides the standard POSIX-compliant tools.
sysstat – Focuses more on system performance logging and historical data (e.g., sar), whereas procps is for real-time monitoring and process control.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 13, 2024 9:06am		0	VERSION_BUMP	5da3e34a
Oct 11, 2024 11:08pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	c45bad5c