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syscallbypid.d(1m)                              USER COMMANDS                             syscallbypid.d(1m)



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 the root user or users with the dtrace_kernel  privilege  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 directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may
       include full worked examples with verbose 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(1m)