Re: process accounting
Nevermind; Linux 2.6 has "version 3" process accounting, which I have
enabled. It requires updated tools to grok that information, which
Debian apparently does not support (yet). There's a URL for
updated/rewritten packages, and a wishlist bug for v3 support:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289648
Justin
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:12:04AM -0500, pryzbyj wrote:
> Does anyone know why process accounting seems to be completely broken?
>
> I have acct installed, (as well as sac), and I just moved
> /var/account/pacct out of the way and touch,chown,chmod a new one. I
> restarted acct (/etc/init.d/acct restart). The kernel apparently
> wrote some new information to that file, but it still isn't useful:
>
> $ sa -u
> 34826 0.00 cpu 0k mem 2385 io D
> 34826 0.00 cpu 0k mem 49 io �
> *cpu 0k mem 49 io h
> *cpu 0k mem 49 io h
>
> I assume that that's supposed to be the process name and not an
> unprintable character.
>
> strings /var/account/pacct shows all sorts of process names, none of
> which I've ever seen with sa.
>
> rawtmp shows some actually information, including usernames,
> hostnames, times, pts numbers and PIDs, but I guess thats just using
> wtmp and not pacct.
>
> dumpacct shows seemingly random times from 1969..
>
> Thanks, and Please Cc me,
> Justin
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