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typedef ushort  comp_t;        /* pseudo "floating point" representation */
            /* 3 bit base-8 exponent in the high */
            /* order bits, and a 13-bit fraction */
            /* in the low order bits. */
struct    acct
{
    char    ac_flag;    /* Accounting flag */
    char    ac_stat;    /* Exit status */
    uid_t    ac_uid;        /* Accounting user ID */
    gid_t    ac_gid;        /* Accounting group ID */
    dev_t    ac_tty;        /* control tty */
    time_t    ac_btime;    /* Beginning time */
    comp_t    ac_utime;    /* accounting user time in clock */
                /* ticks */
    comp_t    ac_stime;    /* accounting system time in clock */
                /* ticks */
    comp_t    ac_etime;    /* accounting total elapsed time in clock */
                /* ticks */
    comp_t    ac_mem;        /* memory usage in clicks (pages) */
    comp_t    ac_io;        /* chars transferred by read/write */
    comp_t    ac_rw;        /* number of block reads/writes */
    char    ac_comm[8];    /* command name */
};    
/*
 * Accounting Flags
 */
#define    AFORK    01    /* has executed fork, but no exec */
#define    ASU    02    /* used super-user privileges */
#define    ACCTF    0300        /* record type */
#define    AEXPND    040    /* Expanded Record Type - default */

In ac_flag, the AFORK flag is turned on by each fork and turned off by an exec. The ac_comm field is inherited from the parent process and is reset by any exec. Each time the system charges the process with a clock tick, it also adds to ac_mem the current process size, computed as follows:

(data size) + (text size) / (number of in-core processes using text)

The value of ac_mem/(ac_stime+ac_utime) can be viewed as an approximation to the mean process size, as modified by text sharing.

The structure tacct, (which resides with the source files of the accounting commands), represents a summary of accounting statistics for the user id ta_uid. This structure is used by the accounting commands to report statistics based on user id.

/*
 *  total accounting (for acct period), also for day
 */

struct    tacct {
    uid_t    ta_uid;    /* user id */
    char    ta_name[8];    /* login name */
    float    ta_cpu[2];    /* cum. cpu time in minutes, */
                /* p/np (prime/non-prime time) */
    float    ta_kcore[2];    /* cum. kcore-minutes, p/np */
    float    ta_con[2];    /* cum. connect time in minutes, */
                /* p/np */
    float    ta_du;    /* cum. disk usage (blocks)*/
    long    ta_pc;    /* count of processes */
    unsigned short    ta_sc;    /* count of login sessions */
    unsigned short    ta_dc;    /* count of disk samples */
    unsigned short    ta_fee;    /* fee for special services */
};

ta_cpu, ta_kcore, and ta_con contain usage information pertaining to prime time and non-prime time hours. The first element in each array represents the time the resource was used during prime time hours. The second element in each array represents the time the resource was used during non-prime time hours. Prime time and non-prime time hours may be set in the holidays file (see holidays(4) ).

ta_kcore is a cumulative measure of the amount of memory used over the accounting period by processes owned by the user with uid ta_uid. The amount shown represents kilobyte segments of memory used, per minute.

ta_con represents the amount of time the user was logged in to the system.

Files

/etc/acct/holidays

prime/non-prime time table

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