System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

How to Deactivate Process and Task Accounting

To deactivate process and task accounting, turn off each of them individually.

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Turn off process accounting.


    # acctadm -x process 
    
  3. Turn off task accounting.


    # acctadm -x task
    
  4. Verify that task accounting and process accounting have been turned off.


    # acctadm
                     Task accounting: inactive
                Task accounting file: none
              Tracked task resources: extended,mstate
            Untracked task resources: host
                  Process accounting: inactive
             Process accounting file: none
           Tracked process resources: extended
         Untracked process resources: host,mstate