On 06/16/09 15:03, Paul Johnston wrote: > Just rebooted my OpenSolaris box > (SunOS workdellgx260 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris) > and the process notification-da/1 is being a total hog! > > 1142 paulj 105M 28M run 50 0 0:05:53 94% notification-da/1 > > Any idea what is going on? > > Cheers Paul > Hi Paul, You could try the following dtrace oneliner, # dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry /pid == <pid-of-notification-daemon>/ { @dump[probefunc] = count(); }'
Ctrl-C after a few seconds. You should find the no of each syscall that process did during the time you ran the script. This gives you an idea what is going on. HTH, Krishnan