Current File : //usr/share/systemtap/examples/process/forktracker.meta
title: Trace Creation of Processes
name: forktracker.stp
version: 0.1
author: Phil Muldoon at Red Hat
keywords: process scheduler
subsystem: scheduler
status: production
exit: user-controlled
output: trace
scope: system-wide
description: The forktracker.stp script prints out a time-stamped entry showing each fork and exec operation on the machine. This can be useful to determine what process is creating a flurry of short-lived processes.
test_check: stap -p4 forktracker.stp
test_installcheck: stap forktracker.stp -T 1
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