The following is a demonstration of the syscallbysysc.d script, # syscallbysysc.d dtrace: description 'syscall:::entry ' matched 228 probes ^C fstat 1 setcontext 1 lwp_park 1 schedctl 1 mmap 1 sigaction 2 pset 2 lwp_sigmask 2 gtime 3 sysconfig 3 write 4 brk 6 pollsys 7 p_online 558 ioctl 579 In the above output, the ioctl system call was the most common, occuring 579 times.