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From: gplan@umb.umb.edu (George A. Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: charging for resource usage
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Date: 13 Sep 88 03:22:04 GMT
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How is charging, of users and projects, for resource usage (cpu time,
disk space, ...) generally done in Unix?  I gather that some use the
sa command plus scripts to do this.  Is there a source of useful
scripts out there?  Is there something better?  This would apply to
a science/engineering research group of some 50 users, and say 50
projects, on a supermini plus workstations and other paraphenelia.
I'm talking about tracking resource usage, and not the more philosophical
question of who should be charged for what, and why.