System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

How to Deactivate Process, Task, and Flow Accounting

To deactivate process, task, and flow 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. Turn off flow accounting.


    # acctadm -x flow
    
  5. Verify that task accounting, process accounting, and flow accounting have been turned off.


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