.TH shortlived.d 1m  "$Date:: 2007-08-05 #$" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
shortlived.d \- check short lived process time. Uses DTrace.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shortlived.d
.SH DESCRIPTION
shortlived.d is a DTrace program to measure the time consumed by
short lived processes. 

Many short lived processes can be a burden on the system, and may be
the cause of performance problems. This program can help identify
that case.

Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the
dtrace_kernel privilege can run this command.
.SH OS
Solaris
.SH STABILITY
stable - needs the syscall and proc providers.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
This prints a report after Ctrl\-C has been hit,
# 
.B shortlived.d
.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
shortlived.d will run until Ctrl\-C is hit to end the sample. 
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
[Sydney, Australia]
.SH SEE ALSO
dtrace(1M), truss(1)