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procps enhancement update

Advisory:	RHEA-2011:1497-1
Type:	Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2012-02-20
Last updated on:	2012-02-20
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

Details

An enhanced procps package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system
information. The procps package includes the following commands: ps, free,
skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, and pdwx.

This updated procps package adds the following enhancement:

* Prior to this update the option to sort processes based on memory consumption
using the top utility was only available in interactive mode (using Shift-M).
Consequently you could not sort based on memory usage in batch mode. With this
update an option, "-m", has been added to the "top" command that will
automatically sort by memory usage. (BZ#547749)

Users of procps are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this
enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 7b5cb21e3c5742d64775a4b578fb3a51 SHA-256: 71e3c089fc4369a28060b3f1d31414ad4c8ca3c0605bbecc9ee830f63d0f35d6`

IA-32:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 2ff1f33334107b920a2dd13aec908bc4 SHA-256: 9ecc248c8d0f461eae314ea1aa6aa6da69dfc0c8de0c84f114f2d07dcff17dac`

IA-64:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: fa8c410cecfac5eaa141f92e53cd8559 SHA-256: f3d923bb18caf27cc45e735bc68ef0c24a556aaf2304f39c3dc9774c0a58596a`

PPC:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.ppc.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 4df9547ff9e1c9cd7e1d9e8cd3920ef7 SHA-256: 9a7e05dfb8d3cc4872029dbea0b0dce0b8dd7e8189703213cd0032640eb07a0c`
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.ppc64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: f74a8224694c875c1d8aa2acd7aced6c SHA-256: c028fa9fbd6c1823f347a6be633fd21e98ac3fb2773739ff4b27bd567aa8b451`

s390x:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.s390x.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 2e72fe5de0dcdc0dcf0b1627006e284d SHA-256: 387fb763b21fb2542c4420d615c6f527df2b21815ac98e9294be0755f77809b1`

x86_64:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.x86_64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: ceecd1c9fc305f9005e5e70ab3641c4e SHA-256: af5616dc2ed549a9273295c5ddb20e894ca6620dae898fe429eb370a057c52d0`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 7b5cb21e3c5742d64775a4b578fb3a51 SHA-256: 71e3c089fc4369a28060b3f1d31414ad4c8ca3c0605bbecc9ee830f63d0f35d6`

IA-32:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: 2ff1f33334107b920a2dd13aec908bc4 SHA-256: 9ecc248c8d0f461eae314ea1aa6aa6da69dfc0c8de0c84f114f2d07dcff17dac`

x86_64:
procps-3.2.7-18.el5.x86_64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2013:0062	`MD5: ceecd1c9fc305f9005e5e70ab3641c4e SHA-256: af5616dc2ed549a9273295c5ddb20e894ca6620dae898fe429eb370a057c52d0`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

547749 - top utility can't sort by memory usage in batch mode

Keywords

pmap, procps, ps, top, vmstat

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