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- From: bill@bill.ab.umd.edu (Bill Bame)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: Received Bytes Accounting
- Message-ID: <17625@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:24:48 GMT
- References: <01GSFKS4THCYAFTSR3@accuwx.com>
- Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
- Reply-To: bill@office.ab.umd.edu
- Organization: M.I.E.M.S.S.
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- In article <01GSFKS4THCYAFTSR3@accuwx.com>, GOODMAN@ACCUWX.COM (Paladin) writes:
- >None of the process accounting data that VMS records is a fair
- >and accurate way to charge a user for use of a time-shared Vax
-
- That all depends on how you define fair and accurate.
-
- <description of why some accounting data is not fair or accurate>
-
- >So what is really needed is a count of the bytes written to the user's
- >terminal.
-
- So what you're saying is that a person who logs on, reads 10K worth
- of mail messages, then logs off should be charged for 10K bytes, while
- someone who logs in and does the following...
-
- $ SAS HUGEANALYSIS.SAS
- <pause while CPU uses 17:30:15.31 in CPU time>
- $ LO
-
- Should only be charged for 26 bytes!?
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