Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?

[ben]

On 5/31/2019 7:32 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
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>> On May 30, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:31 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>> (Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.)
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>>> Did anyone ever use process accounting?  Did they actually bill
>>> departments (funny money)?
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>> I am not billed for it, but the data is collected:
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>> logout
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>> 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
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>> -- Charles
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> 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.
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> Zane
I wonder what the real time on the system was for 19 seconds?
Was there a I/O charge as well on the system?
Is that a real machine or a emulation you are running?
Ben.