Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?

[Charles Anthony]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:44 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> >> 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
> 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.
>
> Emulator.  19 seconds wall clock time; the emulated CPU is 6-8x the h/w.

They billed for every thing: connect time, disk storage:



Disk usage for 12/31/00  1900.0 est Mon to 12/25/16  1304.4 est Sun



  s-qta   s-use       s-charge   d-qta   d-use       d-charge   lev path

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>system_library_tools

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      SysAdmin>admin

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>system_library_auth_maint

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