1. Managing Terminals and Modems (Overview)
2. Setting Up Terminals and Modems (Tasks)
3. Managing Serial Ports With the Service Access Facility (Tasks)
4. Managing System Resources (Overview)
5. Displaying and Changing System Information (Tasks)
7. Managing UFS Quotas (Tasks)
8. Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)
9. Managing System Accounting (Tasks)
What Happens If the System Shuts Down
How to Set Up System Accounting
Maintaining Accounting Information
Fixing Corrupted Files and wtmpx Errors
How to Fix a Corrupted wtmpx File
How to Restart the runacct Script
Stopping and Disabling System Accounting
How to Temporarily Stop System Accounting
How to Permanently Disable System Accounting
10. System Accounting (Reference)
11. Managing System Performance (Overview)
12. Managing System Processes (Tasks)
13. Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)
14. Troubleshooting Software Problems (Overview)
16. Managing Core Files (Tasks)
17. Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)
18. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Software Problems (Tasks)
19. Troubleshooting File Access Problems (Tasks)
20. Resolving UFS File System Inconsistencies (Tasks)
This section describes new or changed features in system accounting in the Oracle Solaris release. For a complete listing of new features and a description of Oracle Solaris releases, see Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What’s New.
Oracle Solaris 10: Changes have been made to the internals of the load averaging, cpu usr/sys/idle, and accounting functions. Microstate accounting has replaced the old accounting mechanism and is enabled by default all of the time. As a result, you might notice slightly different process usage and timing statistics.
Switching to microstate accounting provides substantially more accurate data about user processes and the amount of time they spend in various states. In addition, this information is used to generate more accurate load averages and statistics from the /proc file system. For more information, see the proc(4) man page.