.TH pidpersec.d 1m "Jun 09, 2005" "version 0.80" "USER COMMANDS" .SH NAME pidpersec.d \- print new PIDs per sec. Uses DTrace. .SH SYNOPSIS .B pidpersec.d .SH DESCRIPTION This script prints the number of new processes created per second. Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command. .SH EXAMPLES .TP Print PID statistics per second, # .B pidpersec.d .PP .SH FIELDS .TP TIME time, as a string .TP LASTPID last PID created .TP PID/s Number of processes created 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 pidpersec.d will run until Ctrl\-C is hit. .SH AUTHOR Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] .SH SEE ALSO execsnoop(1M), dtrace(1M)