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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 into a summary file 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 can grow by 10000 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; is the default. Output fields are labeled: for the sum of user and system times (in minutes), for real time (also in minutes), for cpu-time averaged core usage (in 1K units), for average number of IO operations per execution. With options fields labelled for total IO operations, for cpu storage integral (kilo-core seconds), and for user and system cpu time alone (both in minutes) will sometimes appear. There are zillions of options: a Place all command names containing unprintable characters and those used only once under the name 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 Assume answer for option -v. g Ignore /usr/adm/acct. Useful for processing only and 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 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 userid 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 add the command to the category This is used to strip out garbage. FILES raw accounting summary per-user summary SEE ALSO ac(8), acct(2) BUGS Sa needs more options. SA(8)