A bit more specific info. on the procps 3.x releases
from the developers...

--- David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been talking with the author of much of the
> procps code, and maintainer of a fork of it called
> procps 3.x, and I'll run by you some of our
> conversation so you can decide if we should switch
> to
> that procps tree.

Jim and I have some changes coming in 3.1.2 that
are likely to please the Mandrake developers. Quick
note
about changes and recent versions:

3.x.x in general:
  new "ps -F"
  set SKIP to avoid building stuff you don't want
  vmstat can display IO-wait time now
  most stuff runs way faster than in procps 2.x.xx
  top can sort any column

3.1.1 is currently the latest. It's really solid.

3.1.2 is coming out soon. Important changes:
  "vmstat -s". (like most other UNIX-like systems
have)
  "top" can read and write old-style config files
  "top" supports the old sort keys like 'M'
  with a recent gcc, takes advantage of C99 "restrict"
  much faster "top" and "w"

Future:
  documented public library interface
  psmisc package merged back in

See the NEWS file for more details.

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