08-19-2004
This is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook
here.
You just need to download the floppy boot disks for your particular hardware. You can access
www.freebsd.org and find the links to the media for your hardware and install over the network.
Although, I agree with Neo. A CD-ROM is a way to go especially if you are new to this because you might be installing multiple times during the learning process.
The .ISOs for FreeBSD are available freely as well. I would suggest going with FreeBSD 4.10 and not going with the 5.x branch until you are into the swing of things.
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syscallbypid.d
syscallbypid.d(1m) USER COMMANDS syscallbypid.d(1m)
NAME
syscallbypid.d - syscalls by process ID. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
syscallbypid.d
DESCRIPTION
This reports the number of each type of system call made by PID. This is useful to identify which process is causing the most system
calls.
This is based on a script from DExplorer.
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.
EXAMPLES
This samples until Ctrl-C is hit.
# syscallbypid.d
FIELDS
PID process ID
CMD process name
SYSCALL
system call name
COUNT number of system calls made in this sample
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver-
bose descriptions explaining the output.
EXIT
syscallbypid.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSO
procsystime(1M), dtrace(1M), truss(1)
version 1.00 Jun 28, 2005 syscallbypid.d(1m)