psmisc - Small utilities that use the /proc filesystem. The psmisc package is a set of some small utilities that use the proc filesystem. The package contains the following programs: * fuser - Identifies what processes are using files. * killall - Kills a process by its name, similar to a pkill found in some other Unices. * pstree - Shows currently running processes in a tree format. * peekfd - Peek at file descriptors of running processes.