31 May
2019
31 May
'19
7:43 p.m.
I believe I've heard about a couple instances
where PA was used for
health checks, load distribution, etc for "web-scale" applications on
thousands of servers running Linux. ISTR in one case it was only enabled
when needed for tracking down an issue? But this is hearsay, I'm not
involved in any of the above projects/apps.
But no, not for chargeback so far as I know. I only saw that sort of use
in academia similar to what others have mentioned - departmental
budgeting, grant accounting, etc.
As a starving undergrad at UC San Diego in the mid 1990s, I remember charge
costs being displayed to us hoi polloi users, and we got a certain amount
of connect and compute time budgeted each week. If you exceeded that, you
got to read a book.
This was probably to discourage MUDders more than anything else, I suspect.
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