prstat -L takes a long time if a process has large number of LWPs (Doc ID 2187031.1)

Last updated on APRIL 09, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

"prstat -L" can take hours to complete.

Truss of "prstat -L" shows the last PID that it is examining, and after that it is continuously calling brk(2) to allocate more and more memory.

Example of truss output:

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