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Introduction

procutils is a suite of Linux command-line utilities — top, ps, free, vmstat, and friends — written from scratch in Rust as a clean-room, permissively-licensed reimplementation of the tools traditionally provided by procps-ng. Each tool reads from /proc (and a few other kernel interfaces) to report on processes, memory, and system state, and aims to be a drop-in replacement for its procps-ng counterpart while taking the opportunity to clean up rough edges where doing so does not break existing use-cases.

Source Code

The source is available on github and gitlab.