The following is a demonstration of the rwbbypid.d script, Here we run it for a few seconds then hit Ctrl-C, # rwbbypid.d Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C PID CMD DIR BYTES 20347 bash R 22 11053 dtrace W 32 1532 Xorg W 64 20317 sshd R 86 20347 bash W 87 20317 sshd W 137 1659 mozilla-bin R 213 20334 sshd R 1232 20334 sshd W 1282 11054 cp W 18652 11054 cp R 18652 1532 Xorg R 51112 1659 mozilla-bin W 51261 In the above output, we can see that mozilla-bin with PID 1659 has written 51261 bytes, while Xorg has read 51112 bytes.