• Linux
  
• gprof
  
• GNU gprof
  
• Speed your code with the GNU profiler
• callgrind
• Callgrind: a heavyweight profiler
• ltrace/strace/mtrace
• These are low level system calls, library calls and memory tracers
• Overview
• Systemtap
• Solaris
• dtrace - my fav
  
• BigAdmin: DTrace
• DTrace Review - Really Cool Video - A must see one!
  
• IBM - AIX
  
• truss/trace
  
• i haven't personally used these, still has to do some more research on these
• Probevue
  
• HPUX
• if lucky you will find some here
  
• Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX

#!bin/sh

PROCCHECKDELAY=1
RUNCHECKDELAY=2
PAGEROWS=80
PROCNAME=$1
PROCID=

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
        echo give program name to watch;
        exit 1;
fi

stat_process()
{
    PROCID=
    _mypid=
    while [ true ]
    do
        _mypid=`ps -e 2>/dev/null|grep $1|head -n1|awk '{ print $1 }'`;
        if [ -z "$_mypid" ]
        then
            echo "$1 is not running"
        else
            break;
        fi
        echo "recheck after $RUNCHECKDELAY seconds";
        sleep $RUNCHECKDELAY;
    done
    PROCID=$_mypid;
}

i=$PAGEROWS;
while true;
do
stat_process $PROCNAME;
if [ $i -eq $PAGEROWS ] ;
then
        i=0;
        UNIX95= ps -p $PROCID -o vsz,pid,ruser,args 2>/dev/null
else
        UNIX95= ps -p $PROCID -o vsz,pid,ruser,args 2>/dev/null|tail +2
fi
if [ ! -z "$PROCID" ]
then
    i=`expr $i + 1`;
fi
sleep $PROCCHECKDELAY;
done;