sh_calldist.d - measure Bourne shell elapsed times for types of operation. sh_calldist.d This traces shell activity from all Bourne shells on the system that are running with sh provider support. This script prints distribution plots of elapsed time for shell operations. Use sh_calltime.d for summary reports. Filename and call names are printed if available. Any Evolving - uses the DTrace Shell provider, which may change as additional features are introduced. Check Shell/Readme to see what version these scripts are based on.

Default output, # sh_calldist.d

1 Filename of the shell or shellscript

2 Type of call (func/builtin/cmd)

3 Name of call

See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Examples, Notes and Docs directories. The example files may be especially useful as they aim to demonstrate how to interpret the output. sh_calldist.d will run until Ctrl-C is hit. Brendan Gregg [CA, USA] dtrace(1M)