Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?

[Zane Healy]

> On May 30, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:31 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> (Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.)
>> 
>> Did anyone ever use process accounting?  Did they actually bill
>> departments (funny money)?
>> 
>> 
> I am not billed for it, but the data is collected:
> 
> logout
> 
> CAnthony.User logged out 05/30/19  1705.9 edt Thu
> CPU usage 19 sec, memory usage 2.4 units, cost $1.33.
> hangup
> Multics has disconnected you
> 
> -- Charles

I’d get largely the same when logging out of GCOS-8.  I’ve rather chuckled at some of the “bills” that I’ve racked up on my Multics System.

Zane