When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself “Who the heck started this process?” Often it’s a process started by SMF as part of a service (or by a process started by SMF) but then the question is “Which service?”. prstat now got the new -x option. This shows for each process the FMRI of each process that was started as part of an SMF service.
You have to scroll right to see the new output:
# prstat -x
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP FMRI
835 root 181M 174M sleep 59 0 0:03:07 0,3% sstored/18 svc:/system/sstore:default
6 root 0K 0K sleep 99 -20 0:00:33 0,1% zpool-rpool/166 -
1653 root 13M 6668K cpu0 59 0 0:00:00 0,0% prstat/1 svc:/network/ssh:default
1638 jmoekamp 16M 1868K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0,0% sshd/1 svc:/network/ssh:default
1645 root 13M 5932K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0,0% bash/1 svc:/network/ssh:default
1067 root 27M 10M sleep 59 0 0:00:07 0,0% sysstatd/14 svc:/system/sysstat:default
836 webservd 26M 8328K sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0,0% httpd/18 svc:/system/webui/server:default
This is really useful. I’m often (as in: almost always) using prstat in the microstate accounting mode with the -m option. However -m is one of the options that can’t be combined with -x.
root@solaris:~# prstat -xm
prstat: -x option cannot be used with -a, -t, -m, -v, -L or -H
Still this new option is super useful, because when I’m starting to use microstate accounting I’m already far beyond the topic of “Who started it?”
