1The following is a demonstration of the pidpersec.d script. 2 3 4Here the program is run on an idle system, 5 6 # ./pidpersec.d 7 TIME LASTPID PID/s 8 2005 Jun 9 22:15:09 3010 0 9 2005 Jun 9 22:15:10 3010 0 10 2005 Jun 9 22:15:11 3010 0 11 2005 Jun 9 22:15:12 3010 0 12 2005 Jun 9 22:15:13 3010 0 13 ^C 14 15This shows that there are now new processes being created. 16 17 18 19Now the script is run on a busy system, that is creating many processes 20(which happen to be short-lived), 21 22 # ./pidpersec.d 23 TIME LASTPID PID/s 24 2005 Jun 9 22:16:30 3051 13 25 2005 Jun 9 22:16:31 3063 12 26 2005 Jun 9 22:16:32 3073 10 27 2005 Jun 9 22:16:33 3084 11 28 2005 Jun 9 22:16:34 3096 12 29 ^C 30 31Now we can see that there are over 10 new processes created each second. 32The value for lastpid confirms the rates printed. 33 34