| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
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I have a customer requesting an estimate of resource overhead (cpu usage, virtual memory, etc) for UNIX system accounting. I suggested he enable accounting and monitor his system, which he was reluctant to do. Anybody have any experience using system accounting on UNIX that can provide me with some estimates? Basic accounting functionality - enabling data collection and running basic cron jobs (runacct,ckpacct,ac,pac,etc) - would be sufficient. Thanks, Gary
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| 9489.1 | KITCHE::schott | Eric R. Schott USG Product Management | Tue Apr 15 1997 08:49 | 16 | |
> >I have a customer requesting an estimate of resource overhead (cpu usage, >virtual memory, etc) for UNIX system accounting. I suggested he enable >accounting and monitor his system, which he was reluctant to do. Anybody have >any experience using system accounting on UNIX that can provide me with some >estimates? Basic accounting functionality - enabling data collection and running >basic cron jobs (runacct,ckpacct,ac,pac,etc) - would be sufficient. >Thanks, >Gary Hi My experience is it is pretty low, assuming you have disk space on /var file system, and that there are no pre-existing I/O performance problems on /var. | |||||