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There is a freeware tool, DExplorer, developed by Brendan Gregg, that will examine various areas of your system, place the output in a meaningful directory structure and is as a .tar.gz file:

Download DExplorer

Below is an example of what DExplorer does [source: opensolaris.org] :

# dexplorer
Output dir will be the current dir (/export/home/root/DTrace/Dexplorer).
Hit enter for yes, or type path:
Starting dexplorer ver 0.70.
Sample interval is 5 seconds. Total run is > 100 seconds.
  0% Interrupts by CPU...
  5% Interrupt counts...
 10% Dispatcher queue length by CPU...
 15% Sdt counts...
 20% Pages paged in by process name...
 25% Files opened count...
 30% Disk I/O size distribution by process name...
 35% Minor faults by process name...
 40% Vminfo data by process name...
 45% Mib data by mib statistic...
 50% TCP write bytes by process...
 55% Sample process @ 1000 Hz...
 60% Syscall count by process name...
 65% Syscall count by syscall...
 70% Read bytes by process name...
 75% Write bytes by process name...
 80% Sysinfo counts by process name...
 85% New process counts with arguments...
 90% Signal counts...
 95% Syscall error counts...
100% Done.
File is de_jupiter_200506271803.tar.gz
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