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From: art@MITRE.ARPA (Art McClinton)
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Subject: Re: process counting package
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 09:46:30 EDT
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Sorry if this one has already been answered.  I just returned from vacation
and turned back on my subscription to info-vax.  

I have previously installed programs to get simple usage counts.  Once a program
is installed, the INSTALL>SHOW command can be used to get the number of times
that the program has been accessed since the last system boot.  This will then 
accomplish the determination of the which program is accessed most frequently.
Image accounting will give more information but will use alot of disk space.


 
     
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  =-=- This note is in response to yours which follows -=-=

>Does there exist within VMS the capability to count ther number of times a
>compiler is invoked for instance? I am trying to ascertain which is the most
>frequently used of our 4 statistics packages on our 750.


Perhaps a better way would be to use standard VMS accounting. It can account
for each image invoked. Just do SET ACCOUNTING/ENABLE=IMAGE. Then you can
use standard ACCOUNTING commands to examine/analyze the data. The command to
turn it off is (naturally) SET ACCOUNTING/DISABLE=IMAGE.

BEWARE: This produces LOTS of accounting records. Don't leave it enabled for
a long period of time, particularly if you are short of disk space.

Doug