[OpenIndiana-discuss] No keyboard during install of oi 148

[Alasdair Lumsden]

On 01/18/11 12:39 PM, Michael Schuster wrote:
>> that something is in a tight "spawn child which dies" loop.
>
> you could easily test this theory by doing repeated "ps -ef | sort -n
> +1 | tail " and looking at the jumps the pids make (assuming they
> haven't wrapped around yet, which in itself - if it happens early
> after boot - is probably a good indication that your theory is good).

You can also a dtrace one liner to watch new processes being created:

dtrace -n 'proc:::exec-success { trace(curpsinfo->pr_psargs); }'


http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/dtrace_oneliners.txt

Cheers,

Alasdair