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NAME

       procsystime - analyse system call times. Uses DTrace.


SYNOPSIS

       procsystime [-acehoT] [ -p PID | -n name | command ]


DESCRIPTION

       procsystime prints details on system call times for processes, both the
       elapsed times and on-cpu times can be printed.

       The elapsed times are interesting, to help identify syscalls that  take
       some  time  to  complete (during which the process may have slept). CPU
       time helps us identify syscalls that are consuming CPU cycles to run.

       Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges  can  run  this
       command.


OPTIONS

       -a     print all data

       -c     print syscall counts

       -e     print elapsed times, ns

       -o     print CPU times, ns

       -T     print totals

       -p PID examine this PID

       -n name
              examine processes which have this name


EXAMPLES

       Print elapsed times for PID 1871,
              # procsystime -p 1871


       Print elapsed times for processes called "tar",
              # procsystime -n tar


       Print CPU times for "tar" processes,
              # procsystime -on tar


       Print syscall counts for "tar" processes,
              # procsystime -cn tar


       Print elapsed and CPU times for "tar" processes,
              # procsystime -eon tar


       print all details for "bash" processes,
              # procsystime -aTn bash


       run and print details for "df -h",
              # procsystime df -h



FIELDS

       SYSCALL
              System call name

       TIME (ns)
              Total time, nanoseconds

       COUNT  Number of occurrences


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

       procsystime will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.


AUTHOR

       Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]


SEE ALSO

       dtruss(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)




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