strace
Troubleshooting tool for tracing system calls. More information: https://manned.org/strace.
- Start tracing a specific process by its PID:
strace -p {{pid}}
- Trace a process and filter output by system call:
strace -p {{pid}} -e {{system_call_name}}
- Count time, calls, and errors for each system call and report a summary on program exit:
strace -p {{pid}} -c
- Show the time spent in every system call:
strace -p {{pid}} -T
- Start tracing a program by executing it:
strace {{program}}
- Start tracing file operations of a program:
strace -e trace=file {{program}}
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