title: Trace Creation of Processes name: forktracker.stp version: 0.1 author: Phil Muldoon at Red Hat keywords: process scheduler subsystem: scheduler status: production exit: user-controlled output: trace scope: system-wide description: The forktracker.stp script prints out a time-stamped entry showing each fork and exec operation on the machine. This can be useful to determine what process is creating a flurry of short-lived processes. test_check: stap -p4 forktracker.stp test_installcheck: stap forktracker.stp -c "sleep 0.2"