strace
Troubleshooting tool for tracing system calls. More information: https://manned.org/strace.
- Start tracing a specific [p]rocess by its PID:
strace -p
pid
- Trace a [p]rocess and filt[e]r output by system call:
strace -p
pid -e
system_call,system_call2,…
- Count time, calls, and errors for each system call and report a summary on program exit:
strace -p
pid -c
- Show the [T]ime spent in every system call and specify the maximum string [s]ize to print:
strace -p
pid -T -s
32
- Start tracing a program by executing it:
strace
program
- Start tracing file operations of a program:
strace -e trace=file
program
- Start tracing network operations of a program as well as all its [f]orked and child processes, saving the [o]utput to a file:
strace -f -e trace=network -o
trace.txt
program