.TH cswstat.d 1m "May 15, 2005" "version 0.70" "USER COMMANDS" .SH NAME cswstat.d \- context switch time stats. Uses DTrace. .SH SYNOPSIS .B cswstat.d .SH DESCRIPTION cswstat.d is a DTrace program to print context switch time statistics. This program measures the time consumed during context switching, and prints it with the number of context switches and the average time. Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command. .SH EXAMPLES .TP Print statistics every second, # .B cswstat.d .PP .SH FIELDS .TP TIME The current time .TP NUM Number of context switches in this sample .TP CSWTIME Total time consumed context switching, us .TP AVGTIME Average time for each context switch, us .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 cswstat.d will run forever until Ctrl\-C is hit. .SH AUTHOR Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] .SH SEE ALSO mpstat(1M), dtrace(1M)