berkley@wucs.UUCP (Berkley Shands) (09/25/86)
Accounting? Not under 4.X of VMS. Right now you can rack up 72 seconds of runtime in a 60 second period (USE MONITOR/RECORD/MODES). This is because "The granularity of the VMS scheduler allows this." (A DEC developer). Now for the good news. The latest "Dr. Tops" article in the DECUS SIG newsletter (under the LS Sig) claims that the VMS developers are working hard on "BEAN COUNTING" for version 5.0 of VMS. I would bet that this would be a full blown accounting (accurate/repeatable) system. CPU and DISK and SPOOLING etc. would be covered. If you looked back a few issues, "Dr. Tops" provided a few nice utilities for dealing with the current VMS accounting system. Look at the code, it contains some things that will help anyone trying to avoid 3rd party accounting packages (that suffer the same fate :-). Mr. Berkley Shands Large Systems SIG Special Projects Coordinator Flames to BERKLEY@WUNET.UUCP or BERKLEY@WUCS.UUCP.WUSTL or something like that!