The sys-process category contains packages which query or manipulate processes. The 'cron' daemons are included in this.
| acct | GNU system accounting utilities |
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| anacron | a periodic command scheduler |
| at | Queues jobs for later execution |
| atop | Resource-specific view of processes |
| audit | Userspace utilities for storing and processing auditing records |
| bcron | A new cron system designed with secure operations in mind by Bruce Guenter |
| criu | utility to checkpoint/restore a process tree |
| cronbase | base for all cron ebuilds |
| cronie | Cronie is a standard UNIX daemon cron based on the original vixie-cron |
| cronutils | Utilities to assist running batch processing jobs |
| ctop | Top-like interface for container-metrics |
| daemontools | Collection of tools for managing UNIX services |
| daemontools-encore | Collection of tools for managing UNIX services |
| dcron | A cute little cron from Matt Dillon |
| dumb-init | A minimal init system for Linux containers |
| evisum | System and process monitor written with EFL |
| fcron | A command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron |
| ftop | Monitor open files and filesystems |
| glances | CLI curses based monitoring tool |
| gnome-usage | A nice way to view information about use of system resources. |
| htop | interactive process viewer |
| incron | inotify based cron daemon |
| iotop | Top-like UI used to show which process is using the I/O |
| latencytop | tool for identifying where in the system latency is happening |
| lsof | Lists open files for running Unix processes |
| memwatch | Interactive memory viewer |
| minit | a small yet feature-complete init |
| nmon | Nigel's performance MONitor for CPU, memory, network, disks, etc... |
| numactl | Utilities and libraries for NUMA systems |
| numad | The NUMA daemon that manages application locality |
| parallel | A shell tool for executing jobs in parallel locally or on remote machines |
| pkill-darwin | pgrep(1) and pkill(1) for Darwin |
| prll | A utility for parallelizing execution of shell functions |
| procenv | command-line utility to show process environment |
| procps | standard informational utilities and process-handling tools |
| psinfo | Process information and statistics using the kernel /proc interface |
| psmisc | A set of tools that use the proc filesystem |
| rtirq | Modify realtime scheduling policy and priority of IRQ handlers |
| runit | A UNIX init scheme with service supervision |
| schedtool | A tool to query or alter a process' scheduling policy |
| supervise-scripts | Starting and stopping daemontools managed services |
| systemd-cron | systemd units to create timers for cron directories and crontab |
| time | Displays info about resources used by a program |
| tini | A tiny but valid init for containers |
| tiptop | top for performance counters |
| top-apple | Apple's top from Mac OS X Lion 10.7 |
| uksmd | Userspace KSM helper daemon |
| unixtop | top for UNIX systems |
| usbtop | utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices |
| wait_on_pid | small utility to wait for an arbitrary process to exit |
| watchpid | Watches a process for termination |
| xjobs | Reads commands line by line and executes them in parallel |