.TH topsyscall 1m "Jun 13, 2005" "version 0.90" "USER COMMANDS" .SH NAME topsyscall \- top syscalls by syscall name. Uses DTrace. .SH SYNOPSIS .B topsyscall [-Cs] [interval [count]] .SH DESCRIPTION This program continually prints a report of the top system calls, and refreshes the display every 1 second or as specified at the command line. Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command. .SH OPTIONS .TP \-C don't clear the screen .TP \-s print per second values .PP .SH EXAMPLES .TP Default output, 1 second updates, # .B topsyscall .TP Print every 5 seconds, # .B topsyscall 5 .TP Print a scrolling output, # .B topsyscall \-C .PP .SH FIELDS .TP load avg load averages, see uptime(1) .TP syscalls total syscalls in this interval .TP syscalls/s syscalls per second .TP SYSCALL system call name .TP COUNT total syscalls in this interval .TP COUNT/s syscalls per second .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 topsyscall will run until Ctrl\-C is hit, or the specified interval is reached. .SH AUTHOR Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] .SH SEE ALSO dtrace(1M), prstat(1M)