The following is a demonstration of the topsysproc program, Here we run topsysproc with no arguments, # topsysproc 2005 Jun 13 22:25:16, load average: 1.24, 1.23, 1.21 syscalls: 1347 PROCESS COUNT svc.startd 1 nscd 1 setiathome 7 poold 18 sshd 21 java_vm 35 tput 49 dtrace 56 Xorg 108 sh 110 clear 122 mozilla-bin 819 The screen refreshes every 1 second, which can be changed by specifying a different interval at the command line. In the above output we can see that processes with the name "mozilla-bin" made 819 system calls, while processes with the name "clear" made 122. Now topsysproc is run with a 15 second interval, # topsysproc 15 2005 Jun 13 22:29:43, load average: 1.19, 1.20, 1.20 syscalls: 15909 PROCESS COUNT fmd 1 inetd 2 svc.configd 2 gconfd-2 3 miniserv.pl 3 sac 6 snmpd 6 sshd 8 automountd 8 ttymon 9 svc.startd 17 nscd 21 in.routed 37 sendmail 41 setiathome 205 poold 293 dtrace 413 java_vm 529 Xorg 1234 mozilla-bin 13071