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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.



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