syscallbypid.d(1) USER COMMANDS syscallbypid.d(1)
NAME
syscallbypid.d - syscalls by process ID. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
syscallbypid.d
DESCRIPTION
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.d
FIELDS
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.
EXIT
syscallbypid.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSO
procsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)
version 1.00 Jun 28, 2005 syscallbypid.d(1)
Mac OS X 10.6 - Generated Thu Sep 17 20:09:18 CDT 2009