Displaying the process time of finished Accounting processes

You can display the process time of finished processes.

The acctcom command reads input in the total accounting record form (acct file format). This implies that you have process accounting turned on or that you have run process accounting in the past.

The process accounting functions are turned on with the startup command, which is typically started at system initialization with a call in the /etc/rc file. When the process accounting functions are running, a record is written to /var/adm/pacct (a total accounting record file) for every finished process that includes the start and stop time for the process. You can display the process time information from a pacct file with the acctcom command. This command has a number of flags that allow flexibility in specifying which processes to display.

For example, to see all processes that ran for a minimum number of CPU seconds or longer, use the -O flag, type:

acctcom -O 2

This displays records for every process that ran for at least 2 seconds. If you do not specify an input file, the acctcom command reads input from the /var/adm/pacct directory.