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- strace: syscall trace
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- ltrace: function (symbol) trace (along with parameters)
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- mutrace: mutex tracer
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- stap: system tap is Linux dtrace
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- debug: alternative tracing engine is available trough debugfs/tracing
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- brandz: Framework to Solaris zones allowing execution of Linux apps,
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hence, enabling dtrace usage for linuxapps.
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- blktrace / blkparse: Tracing of block device. Individual requests with
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information on the issuing process, cpu, request type, request size, etc.
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- btrace: is wrapper around blktrace / blkparse
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- fatrace: traces file accesses on block device (reports accessing process)
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- lsof: list of processes holding the specified file / device
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- iostat: I/O statistics like block sizes, IOPS per seconds, etc.
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- cifsiostat: SMB traffic
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- nfsiostat: NFS traffic
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- slabtop: memory slab allocations (only slab!). May be usefull to track I/O
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- atop: top with disk and memory activities, etc.
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- mpstat: cpu usage (by core, but no process information)
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- vmstat: virtual memory usage (no process information)
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- sysstat/sar: collects system activity information
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- pmap: process memory segment map
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- pwdx: current working directory of a process
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- nm: list of exported symbols
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- ldd: list of linked shared libraries
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- elflibviewer: dependency tree of shared library (GUI)
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- watch <cmd>: Continiously update command display (watch who)
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- pgrep: find processes by various properties