lockbyproc.d.1m   [plain text]


.TH lockbyproc.d 1m  "May 16, 2005" "version 1.00" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
lockbyproc.d \- lock time by process name. Uses DTrace.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lockbyproc.d
.SH DESCRIPTION
lockbyproc.d is a DTrace OneLiner to a report the total time threads
have spent blocked on adaptive mutexes, by process name.

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 the root user or users with the
dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
This samples until Ctrl\-C is hit.
# 
.B lockbyproc.d
.PP
.SH FIELDS
.TP
first field
This is the process name. There may be several PIDs that have the 
same process name, for example with numerous instances of "bash". The
value reported will be the sum of them all.
.TP
second field
This is the total length of time blocked, in nanoseconds.
.PP
.SH 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.
.SH EXIT
lockbyproc.d will sample until Ctrl\-C is hit.
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
[Sydney, Australia]
.SH SEE ALSO
lockstat(1M), dtrace(1M)