dtrace discuss - Jul 2006 - high amount of syscalls

Hi

  very frequently (every 10 secs) i''m getting the following
lines in mpstat:

CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt

  13    0   0    0     8    0    0    7    0    0    0 22731    8  92   0

high sys times with an increment in system calls. I''d like to
observe more deeply this situation to see where this syscalls
come from using dtrace, i thought about speculative tracing,
please can someone point me to some example or hint?

rgds
roberto,

Hi,

You can start by reading Example 1: High System Calls 
from DTT presentation found under: 
http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl97/solaris/dtrace/index.html

Regards,
Stefan