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The ktreeps program is designed to provide an easy and natural way to view and interact with the running programs on your computer system. On multi-user system's it also provides the ability to determine which users are logged in and what users are running background or scheduled programs.
Each runing program, or process, is connected into a tree diagram which shows the invokation hierarchy, i.e. which process started which. Also each process is color coded to highlight various kinds of information. Finally processes may be decorated with activity indicators and/or leader bars to show active or important processes.
Details about each process may be displayed, such as the amount of memory used, or the amount of CPU time taken by the process. Processes are displayed as a rectangle/circle and contain one of more fields of information. By default the process name is displayed, but any of the key process fields may be displayed.
Each process in the tree is color coded, the default is by effective user id. This allows one to quickly see which processes are executing as other users and/or executing with special priveledges. Other color coding includes:
The program shows the logged in users processes by default, but but can easily be changed to view the system processes and/or any combination of active groups or users processes.
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