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Cc: Artem Naluzhnyy <tut@nhamon.com.ua>
Subject: Re: High syscall rate
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On Sunday 17 August 2008 20:32:03 Artem Naluzhnyy wrote:
> I have 6.1-RELEASE system with lots of processes in production. Is
> there any way to determine which process causes high syscall rate? No
> kernel upgrade or sizeable downtime allowed.

see ktrace(1)

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