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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: usage accounting
Message-ID: <5740034@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 88 00:18:20 GMT
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> I'd like to charge users less who run their processes at a lower priority 
> (i.e. nice'd). Unfortunately I cannot find any applicable fields
> stored in the system accounting file. (structure defined in <sys/acct.h>)

It would be difficult to put in a single priority/nice value that was
meaningful, without adding complexity to the clock interrupt code.
Just recording the nice value at a single instant (probably process
termination) isn't reasonable.  A process doesn't deserve a discount
because it ends with:

		nice(20);
		exit(0);

		Bob Lenk
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