I previously described how to use strace to to summarize system call activity on Linux hosts. Solaris provides similar data with the truss “-c” option: $ truss -c -p 26396 syscall seconds calls errors read .000 3 write 7.671 25038 time .000 21 stat .000 15 lseek .460 24944 getpid .000 15 kill .162 7664 [...]