syscallbypid.d(1m) USER COMMANDS syscallbypid.d(1m)NAMEsyscallbypid.d - syscalls by process ID. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSISsyscallbypid.dDESCRIPTION
This reports the number of each type of system call made by PID. This
is useful to identify which process is causing the most system calls.
This is based on a script from DExplorer.
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this
command.
EXAMPLES
This samples until Ctrl-C is hit.
# syscallbypid.dFIELDS
PID process ID
CMD process name
SYSCALL
system call name
COUNT number of system calls made in this sample
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs direc‐
tory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver‐
bose descriptions explaining the output.
EXITsyscallbypid.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSOprocsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)version 1.00 Jun 28, 2005 syscallbypid.d(1m)