syscallbysysc.d(1m) USER COMMANDS syscallbysysc.d(1m)NAMEsyscallbysysc.d - syscalls by syscall. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSISsyscallbysysc.dDESCRIPTIONsyscallbysysc.d is a DTrace OneLiner to a report of the number of each
type of system call made.
This is useful to identify which system call is the most common.
Docs/oneliners.txt and Docs/Examples/oneliners_examples.txt in the
DTraceToolkit contain this as a oneliner that can be cut-n-paste to
run.
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this
command.
EXAMPLES
This samples until Ctrl-C is hit.
# syscallbysysc.dFIELDS
first field
This is the system call type. Most have man pages in section 2.
second field
This is the count, the number of occurrances for this system
call.
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.
EXITsyscallbysysc.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSOprocsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)version 1.00 May 15, 2005 syscallbysysc.d(1m)