syscallbyproc.d.1m   [plain text]

.TH syscallbyproc.d 1m  "May 15, 2005" "version 1.00" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
syscallbyproc.d \- syscalls by process name. Uses DTrace.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B syscallbyproc.d
.SH DESCRIPTION
syscallbyproc.d is a DTrace OneLiner to a report of the number of 
system calls made by process name. 

This is useful to identify which process is causing the most 
system calls.

Docs/oneliners.txt and Docs/Examples/oneliners_examples.txt
in the DTraceToolkit contain this as a oneliner that can be cut-n-paste
to run.

Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
This samples until Ctrl\-C is hit.
# 
.B syscallbyproc.d
.PP
.SH FIELDS
.TP
first field
This is the process name. There may be several PIDs that have the 
same process name, for example with numerous instances of "bash". The
value reported will be the sum of them all.
.TP
second field
This is the count, the number of system calls made.
.PP
.SH DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the 
Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked
examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.
.SH EXIT
syscallbyproc.d will sample until Ctrl\-C is hit.
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
[Sydney, Australia]
.SH SEE ALSO
procsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)