Advanced Solaris Command

Process stats
– cputrack - per-processor hw counters
– pargs – process arguments
– pflags – process flags
– pcred – process credentials
– pldd – process's library dependencies eg.pldd `pgrep syslog`
– psig – process signal disposition
– pstack – process stack dump eg. pstack `pgrep syslog`
– pmap – process memory map
– pfiles – open files and names
– prstat – process statistics
– ptree – process tree
– ptime – process microstate times
– pwdx – process working directory



Process control
– pgrep – grep for processes
– pkill – kill processes list
– pstop – stop processes
– prun – start processes
– prctl – view/set process resources
– pwait – wait for process
– preap – reap a zombie process
- pfiles - Find Files Opened by a Process eg. pfiles `pgrep syslog` | pg


Process tracing/debugging
– abitrace – trace ABI interfaces
– dtrace – trace the world
– mdb – debug/control processes
– truss – trace functions and
system calls



Kernel tracing/debugging
– dtrace – trace and monitor kernel
– lockstat – monitor locking statistics
– lockstat -k – profile kernel
– mdb – debug live and kernel cores



System stats
– acctcom – process accounting
– busstat – Bus hardware counters
– cpustat – CPU hardware counters
– iostat – IO & NFS statistics
– kstat – display kernel statistics
– mpstat – processor statistics
– netstat – network statistics
– nfsstat – nfs server stats
– sar – kitchen sink utility
– vmstat – virtual memory stats