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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:32:13 +0300
From:      cronfy <cronfy@gmail.com>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unique process id (not pid) and accounting daemon
Message-ID:  <d4ac64921002040232le1dea98jbcbe063c6320eef1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100130000108.GB95021@stack.nl>
References:  <d4ac64921001241533j375705f2we97945d010a1a7ff@mail.gmail.com>  <20100130000108.GB95021@stack.nl>

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Hello,

>> I am trying to create an accounting daemon that would be more precise
>> than usual BSD system accounting. It should read the whole process
>> tree from time to time (say, every 10 seconds) and log changes in
>> usage of CPU, I/O operations and memory per process.
>> There is a problem: it is not always possible to link a process in a
>> process tree against matching process in an accounting file. Only
>> command name, user/group id =A0and start time will match...

> Have you looked at audit(4)?

Yes, but I did not see how it can help to measure cpu usage/io
operations for long running processes and to sync between process list
and accounting file.


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