libprocps8 and missing free, prockill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, procps, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch

[Ken Lobb]

Great, thank you -- just what I needed to know.
Works fine now.

Thank you,
Kenneth Lobb

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 2:55 AM Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 18:02, Ken Lobb  wrote:
> >
> > I'm probably missing something that needs to be configured, but I'm
> trying
> > to utilize uptime & vmstat and other performance/load utilities in
> Cygwin.
> > I installed the libprocps8 package, but none of these utilities can be
> > found.
>
> libprocps8 (
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Flibprocps8%2Flibprocps8-3.3.17-1&grep=libprocps8
> )
> contains only a DLL (as its name suggests).
>
> As Ken Brown wrote, you need
>
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fprocps-ng%2Fprocps-ng-3.3.17-1&grep=procps-ng
>
> --
> You can get very substantial performance improvements
> by not doing the right thing. - Scott Meyers, An Effective C++11/14 Sampler
> So if you're looking for a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant
> way
> to get the wrong information: this is what you want. - Scott Meyers
> (C++TDaWYK)
>