I think that the number of processes forked per sec is a bit too high on one of the servers. How can I monitor what processes are spawned? Is there any tool that can help me? I know I can strace
a specific process looking for fork()
, but is there something similar that works system-wide?
I'd like to know at least the pid (and name) and it's ppid (and name of the parent).
I mean realtime monitoring of new fork()
s, not a snapshot of what's available now.
Best Answer
I don't think so. As my understanding, all the child processes will be forked when the parent process starting. So, it's not too many as you think.
You can do it by combination of
ps
andwatch
command (paging version):