> To capture the resources used by short lived processes, you need to > use accounting
You can use accounting, but you don't need to. It's also possible to do this with DTrace. DTrace has the benefit that it can be enabled only when needed, and the scripts allow it to be easily customized. Brendan Gregg has an example of how to do this in the dtrace toolkit: The script: http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/shortlived.d The example: http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/shortlived_example.txt The toolkit: http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html -j _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
