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+.TH syscallbyproc.d 1m "$Date:: 2007-08-05 #$" "USER COMMANDS"
+.SH NAME
+syscallbyproc.d \- syscalls by process name. Uses DTrace.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B syscallbyproc.d
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+syscallbyproc.d is a DTrace OneLiner to a report of the number of
+system calls made by process name.
+
+This is useful to identify which process is causing the most
+system calls.
+
+Docs/oneliners.txt and Docs/Examples/oneliners_examples.txt
+in the DTraceToolkit contain this as a oneliner that can be cut-n-paste
+to run.
+
+Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
+dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
+.SH OS
+Any
+.SH STABILITY
+stable - needs the syscall provider.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+This samples until Ctrl\-C is hit.
+#
+.B syscallbyproc.d
+.PP
+.SH FIELDS
+.TP
+first field
+This is the process name. There may be several PIDs that have the
+same process name, for example with numerous instances of "bash". The
+value reported will be the sum of them all.
+.TP
+second field
+This is the count, the number of system calls made.
+.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
+syscallbyproc.d will sample until Ctrl\-C is hit.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Brendan Gregg
+[Sydney, Australia]
+.SH SEE ALSO
+procsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)
+