"pstack" is a workalike for the Solaris program of the same name. Running pstack on a process produces a stack trace of each thread in that process. It's useful for finding out what wedged processes are up to, getting profiles of applications, and just satisfying one's curiosity. WWW: https://www.kib.kiev.ua/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pstacku.git;a=tree