.TH pidpersec.d 1m "$Date: 2015/09/30 22:01:09 $" "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 the root user or users with the dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command. .SH OS Solaris .SH STABILITY stable - needs the proc provider. .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)