The following is a demonstration of the allslow DTrace script. It slows down all processes on the system to about a tenth of their usual speed. Here we run allslow, # allslow allslow running... ^C Wasted CPU time 90% When allslow is running, it will be slowing down all of your processes. When you are finished running allslow, hit Ctrl-C - it will print the achieved wasted CPU time percent, which should be around 90%. The following demonstrates the performance impact of running a test program before and after running allslow, $ ptime ./test.pl real 0.766 user 0.753 sys 0.009 $ ptime ./test.pl real 8.579 user 8.306 sys 0.105 test.pl normally takes 0.766 seconds to complete, but with allslow running it takes 8.579 seconds. Wow! We have increased the time test.pl takes by over 1000%.