26 Apr
2016
26 Apr
'16
11:01 p.m.
Hi All,
Following up on the Adam's old presentation on Linux process accounting. Does anyone know the meaning of fields in the pacct file? The utility dump-acct dumps it in a plaintext lines separated by | . Like this:
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?)
Does anyone know? (I am trying to avoid reading the sources of dump-acct or system headers). Thanks!
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