term% cat index.txt SA(8) System Manager's Manual SA(8)
NAME
sa, accton - system accounting
SYNOPSIS
/etc/sa [ -abcdDfgijkKlnrstuv ] [ -e prefix ] [ file ]
/etc/accton [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
With an argument naming an existing file, accton causes system account‐
ing information for every process executed to be placed at the end of
the file. If no argument is given, accounting is turned off.
Sa reports on, cleans up, and generally maintains accounting files.
Sa is able to condense the information in /usr/adm/acct into a summary
file /usr/adm/savacct which contains a count of the number of times
each command was called and the time resources consumed. This conden‐
sation is desirable because on a large system /usr/adm/acct can grow by
10000 blocks per day. The summary file is normally read before the ac‐
counting file, so the reports include all available information.
If a file name is given as the last argument, that file will be treated
as the accounting file; /usr/adm/acct is the default.
Output fields are labelled: ‘cpu' for the sum of user+system time (in
minutes), ‘re' for real time (also in minutes), ‘k' for cpu-time aver‐
aged core usage (in 1k units), ‘avio' for average number of IO opera‐
tions per execution. With options fields labelled ‘tio' for total IO
operations, ‘k*sec' for cpu storage integral (kilo-core seconds), ‘u'
and ‘s' for user and system cpu time alone (both in minutes) will some‐
times appear.
There are zillions of options:
a Place all command names containing unprintable characters and
those used only once under the name ‘***other.'
b Sort output by sum of user and system time divided by number of
calls. Default sort is by sum of user and system times.
c Besides total user, system, and real time for each command print
percentage of total time over all commands.
d Sort by average number of disk IO operations.
D Sort by total number of disk IO operations.
e Set the prefix for accounting file names to the next argument
(/usr/adm/ is the default).
f Force no interactive threshold compression with -v flag.
g Ignore /usr/adm/acct. Useful for processing only savacct and
usracct.
i Don't read in summary file.
j Instead of total minutes time for each category, give seconds
per call.
k Sort by cpu-time average memory usage.
K Print and sort by cpu-storage integral.
l Separate system and user time; normally they are combined.
m (money) Print number of processes and number of CPU minutes for
each user.
n Sort by number of calls.
r Reverse order of sort.
s Merge accounting file into summary file /usr/adm/savacct when
done.
t For each command report ratio of real time to the sum of user
and system times.
u Superseding all other flags, print for each command in the ac‐
counting file the user ID and command name.
v Followed by a number n, types the name of each command used n
times or fewer. Await a reply from the terminal; if it begins
with ‘y', add the command to the category ‘**junk**.' This is
used to strip out garbage.
FILES
/usr/adm/acct raw accounting
/usr/adm/savacct summary
/usr/adm/usracct per-user summary
SEE ALSO
ac(8), acct(2)
BUGS
Needs more options.
SA(8)