Unflappings

Bold indicates a button clicked or key pressed.
“quotes” indicates a value which has been entered.

Grey block quote is a command typed directly into the console.

Purpose

To keep track of the rate and frequency which processes use resources, enabling accounting is a good simple solution. It is very effective and can tell you were performance bottlenecks are in your machine.

Procedures

#touch /var/account/acct
#accton /var/account/acct
#echo ‘accounting_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
#lastcomm

The “lastcomm” command will allow you to view process accounting information.