perfdiagnose(1) [osx man page]

sysdiagnose(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					    sysdiagnose(1)

NAME

     sysdiagnose -- gathers system-wide diagnostic information helpful in investigating system performance issues.

SYNOPSIS

     sysdiagnose -h
     sysdiagnose [-f results_directory] [-t] [-q] [-b] [process_name | pid]

DESCRIPTION

     sysdiagnose tool gathers system diagnostic information helpful in investigating system performance issues. A great deal of information is
     harvested, spanning system state and configuration.  sysdiagnose needs to be run as root.	sysdiagnose can be triggered upon pressing a spe-
     cial key chord; this is currently Control-Option-Command-Shift-Period.

   What sysdiagnose Collects:
	   o   A spindump of the system
	   o   Several seconds of fs_usage ouput
	   o   Several seconds of top output
	   o   Data about kernel zones
	   o   Status of loaded kernel extensions
	   o   Resident memory usage of user processes
	   o   All system logs, kernel logs, opendirectory log, windowserver log, and log of power management events
	   o   A System Profiler report
	   o   All spin and crash reports
	   o   Disk usage information
	   o   I/O Kit registry information
	   o   Network status
	   o   If a specific process is supplied as an argument: list of malloc-allocated buffers in the process's heap is collected
	   o   If a specific process is supplied as an argument: data about unreferenced malloc buffers in the process's memory is collected
	   o   If a specific process is supplied as an argument: data about the virtual memory regions allocated in the process

OPTIONS

     -h       Print full usage.

     -f results_directory
	      Specify the directory where the results will be stored. The default results directory is /var/tmp.

     -q       Skips calling footprint.

     -t       Enable "Thorough Mode". See below.

     -b       Do not show the resulting archive in a Finder window upon completion.

     process_name | pid
	      If a single process appears to be slowing down the system, passing in the process name or ID as the argument gathers additional
	      process-specific diagnostic data.

THOROUGH MODE

     sysdiagnose can be run in a "Thorough Mode" in which standard data is gathered as well as a kernel trace. Enabling "Thorough Mode" for the
     command-line sysdiagnose and key-chord sysdiagnose are independent and are performed as follows:

     For "Thorough Mode" in the command-line sysdiagnose use the "-t" flag.

     To enable "Thorough Mode" for special key-chord launches of sysdiagnose execute "touch /var/tmp/.thoroughsysdiagnose"

     To disable "Thorough Mode" for special key-chord launches of sysdiagnose execute "rm /var/tmp/.thoroughsysdiagnose"

   Note:
     Gathering the kernel trace can increase the size of sysdiagnose output by hundreds of MB as well as increase the time for sysdiagnose to com-
     plete.

EXIT STATUS

     sysdiagnose exits with status 0 if there were no internal errors encountered during the diagnostic, or >0 when an error unrelated to external
     state occurs or unusable input is provided by the user.

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