pidpersec.d(1m) USER COMMANDS pidpersec.d(1m)NAMEpidpersec.d - print new PIDs per sec. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSISpidpersec.dDESCRIPTION
This script prints the number of new processes created per second.
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this
command.
EXAMPLES
Print PID statistics per second,
# pidpersec.dFIELDS
TIME time, as a string
LASTPID
last PID created
PID/s Number of processes created per second
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.
EXITpidpersec.d will run until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSOexecsnoop(1M), dtrace(1M)version 0.80 Jun 09, 2005 pidpersec.d(1m)