syscallbypid.d(1m)

syscallbypid.d1m

Syscalls by process id. uses dtrace.

Usage

syscallbypid.d

Overview

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 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.

Releases

115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10.5–10.5.8
  2. 10.6–26.5

Author

Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]

From dtrace 413 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.