Re: [RndTbl] process accouting, fields meaning?

-- Grigory Shamov Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625 On 16-04-27 12:10 AM, "roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca on behalf of Trevor Cordes" <roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca on behalf of trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote: >On 2016-04-26 Grigory Shamov wrote: >> sh | 0.0| 0.0| 11.0| 0| 0|107328.0| 19284 >> 3258|Tue Apr 26 04:17:07 2016 >> >> First three floats are runtimes, then UID|GID; last is the date it >> ended. Googling brought me "memory" and "io" for the two other fields >> but I am still at loss. >> What is memory here? And why io is two numbers (read/write? Which is >> which?) > >Man do the man pages for this whole subsystem suck! > >"man 5 acct" is the closest I get to something useful. From the C >struct shown, excluding the "unused" lines, I would hazard a guess that >memory is "Average memory usage (kB)" and the 2 numbers aren't io but >minor/major page faults. That actually jives with the numbers you >provided. > >You should be easily be able to confirm if it's pf's by running: >time commandfoo >(at least on tcsh) > >My shell shows me pagefaults major+minor when I set: >set time = (1 "%U+%Sc %Es %P %X+%D<%Mk | %w+%ccs %F+%Rpg %Wsw %ksg") > >If the pf from time lines up with what acct says then voila. > >"Average memory usage" is a bit of a weird stat, but could be handy. >Maybe Adam can speak more to that. >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable@muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable