cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit/Examples/iofileb_example.txt

   1 The following is a demonstration of the iofileb.d script,
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   4 Here we run it while a tar command is backing up /var/adm,
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   6    # ./iofileb.d
   7    Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
   8    ^C
   9       PID CMD              KB FILE
  10     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa31
  11     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa03
  12     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa02
  13     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa01
  14     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa04
  15     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa27
  16     29529 tar              56 /var/adm/sa/sa28
  17     29529 tar             324 /var/adm/exacct/task
  18     29529 tar             736 /var/adm/wtmpx
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  20 In the above output, we can see that the tar command has caused 736 Kbytes
  21 of the /var/adm/wtmpx file to be read from disk. All af the Kbyte values
  22 measured are for disk activity.
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