You can use the wakeup probe to determine what is waking a particular process, and when over a given period, as shown in the following example:

#pragma D option quiet

dtrace:::BEGIN
{
  start = timestamp;
}

sched:::wakeup
/stringof(args[1]->pr_fname) == "gnome-terminal"/
{
  @[execname] = lquantize((timestamp - start) / 1000000000, 0, 10);
}

profile:::tick-1sec
/++x == 10/
{
  exit(0);
}

The output from running this script is shown below:

# dtrace -s gterm.d

  Xorg                                              
           value  ------------- Distribution ------------- count    
             < 0 |                                         0        
               0 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                          69       
               1 |@@@@@@@@                                 35       
               2 |@@@@@@@@@                                42       
               3 |                                         2        
               4 |                                         0        
               5 |                                         0        
               6 |                                         0        
               7 |@@@@                                     16       
               8 |                                         0        
               9 |@@@                                      15       
           >= 10 |                                         0  

The output shows that the X server is waking the gnome-terminal process, as you interact with the system.

You can additionally use the sleep probe along with the wakeup probe to understand which applications are blocking on which applications, and for how long, as shown in the following example:

#pragma D option quiet
sched:::sleep
{
  bedtime[curlwpsinfo->pr_addr] = timestamp;
}

sched:::wakeup
/bedtime[args[0]->pr_addr]/
{
  @[stringof(args[1]->pr_fname), execname] =
    quantize(timestamp - bedtime[args[0]->pr_addr]);
  bedtime[args[0]->pr_addr] = 0;
}

END
{
  printa("%s sleeping on %s:\n%@d\n", @);
}

The tail of the output from running the example script for several seconds on a desktop system resembles the following example:

# dtrace -s whofor.d 
^C
...
Xorg sleeping on metacity:

           value  ------------- Distribution ------------- count    
           65536 |                                         0        
          131072 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 2        
          262144 |                                         0        

gnome-power-man sleeping on Xorg:

           value  ------------- Distribution ------------- count    
          131072 |                                         0        
          262144 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1        
          524288 |                                         0
...