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SA(8)									 SA(8)

NAME
       sa, accton - system accounting

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/etc/sa  [ -abcdDfijkKlnrstuv ] [ -S savacctfile ] [ -U usracctfile
       ] [ file ]

       /usr/etc/accton [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
       With  an	 argument  naming  an  existing	 file,	accton	causes	system
       accounting  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
       condensation  is	 desirable because on a large system /usr/adm/acct can
       grow by 100 blocks per day.  The summary file is normally  read	before
       the accounting 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 labeled: “cpu” for the sum of	user+system  time  (in
       minutes),  “re”	for  real  time	 (also	in  minutes), “k” for cpu-time
       averaged core usage (in 1k units), “avio” for  average  number  of  i/o
       operations  per execution.  With options fields labeled “tio” for total
       i/o operations, “k*sec” for cpu storage integral	 (kilo-core  seconds),
       “u”  and	 “s” for user and system cpu time alone (both in minutes) will
       sometimes appear.

       There are near a googol of options:

       a      Print all	 command  names,  even	those  containing  unprintable
	      characters  and  those  used  only  once.	 By default, those are
	      placed 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 i/o operations.

       D      Print and sort by total number of disk i/o operations.

       f      Force no interactive threshold compression with -v flag.

       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      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
	      accounting 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.

       S      The following filename is	 used  as  the	command	 summary  file
	      instead of /usr/adm/savacct.

       U      The  following  filename	is used instead of /usr/adm/usracct to
	      accumulate the per-user statistics printed by the -m option.

FILES
       /usr/adm/acct	   raw accounting
       /usr/adm/savacct	   summary
       /usr/adm/usracct	   per-user summary

SEE ALSO
       ac(8), acct(2)

BUGS
       The number of options to this program is absurd.

4th Berkeley Distribution	 July 29, 1985				 SA(8)
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