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of course this is only catching the actual number of existing processes every 10 minutes rather than getting the amount of processes created over that 10 minutes.
Some ideas:
spend some time studying the `ps -o` options (to get exactly the info you want) >file
Use text tools like sort, wc, cut or more advanced awk/sed, to format that file as you desire.
Then, either put code in crontab, or a script that has a loop with `sleep 600`
Spend some time playing with web-searches to find the optimal keywords; start with: sar tutorial
I THINK you want the bsd accounting packages installed.
This will allow you to collect the exit statuses of processes, user logins, logouts in accounting files, then you can run reports extracting the information in different ways.
Depending on distribution the accounting packages have different names, so you will have to lookup what your distribution names them.
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