Request extended statistics. If you run SPOT with root privileges, SPOT will collect system wide bandwidth consumption data and system wide trap statistics. Use a dedicated system when collecting this data. On some processors, SPOT will also collect hardware counter profiles of the application using the performance counters identified by ripc as large contributors to the overall stall time. To do, it will run the application up to four additional times.

-P process_id

Attach SPOT to the running process process_id.

-T seconds

Set seconds as the duration of attachment of each of the five probes to the process. The default is 60 seconds per probe, for a total of 300 seconds.

-d directory

Write the SPOT report to a subdirectory of directory. By default, SPOT writes the report to a subdirectory of the current directory.

-o subdirectory

Write the SPOT report to subdirectory. By default, the subdirectory is named spot_runn, where n is a unique number.

-D n

Set the verbosity level of debug information to be reported. The value of n can be:

0: No debug output

1: Normal level of debug information (default)

2: Full debug information

The debug information is written to the debug.log file in the SPOT report.

Do not write SPOT output to stdout (same as -D 0).

Write the current version and detailed debugging information to stdout (same as -D 2).

-c path

Specify a path for the Oracle Solaris Studio components used by SPOT. This option is useful if you want to override the default compiler and use a compiler installed in a different location.

Print SPOT version information and exit.

Print help information.