Showing Accounting system activity while running a command
You can display formatted information about system activity while a particular command is running.
The -o and -p flags of the timex command
require that system accounting be turned on.
You can use the time and timex commands to display formatted
information about system activity while a particular command is running.
To
display the elapsed time, user time, and system execution time for a particular
command, type:
time CommandName
OR timex CommandName
To display the total system activity (all the data items reported
by the sar command)
during the execution of a particular command, type:
The timex command has two additional flags. The -o flag reports the total number
of blocks read or written by the command and all of its children. The -p flag
lists all of the process accounting records for a command and all of its children.timex -s CommandName