> Linux Kernel Process Accounting, (Wed, Aug 12th)
[DATE: 12/08/2026 14:21]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by "bash_history" and collecting meaningful additional data. Our reader David commented that this can also be done quite well with Linux's kernel process accounting feature, and I think he is very right. I really like Linux process accounting for a number of reasons, so here is a quick introduction.