doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) (02/21/89)
>>BTW, has anyone given though to building real controls? Even a >>joystick and peddles (no throttles, etc) would be a godsend. It took >>me several days to get the hang of turning with a mouse and it still >>doesn't feel right. >We have a ``Dimension-6'' -- a steering ball that senses rotation and >translation in 3 dimensions. I hooked it up to flight(1), and the >controls instantly felt much more natural. I'm sorry I can't give >you a detailed comparison between mouse and ball control. This is only productive posting I found in all these flight stories - I'd like to know whether you could give me the adress of the company and how you managed to write a driver! > I wonder just how much CPU power goes into flight compared to other > applications for the SGI.... :-) This is how my accounting looks like: Feb 20 04:00 1989 MONTHLY TOTAL COMMAND SUMMARY Page 1 TOTAL COMMAND SUMMARY COMMAND NUMBER TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL MEAN MEAN NAME CMDS KCOREMIN CPU-MIN REAL-MIN SIZE-K CPU-MIN TOTALS 69708 12446349.00 14379.77 247666.88 865.55 0.21 discover 300 7888990.25 12963.13 16366.52 608.57 43.21 qdiff 6 2550093.19 279.29 437.12 9130.54 46.55 insight 188 889154.56 182.11 1222.76 4882.42 0.97 moledt.e 38 404009.39 147.63 211.98 2736.65 3.88 news_ser 111 187500.03 84.12 5403.99 2228.93 0.76 dbx 42 169607.62 57.44 388.76 2952.95 1.37 connolly 5 87442.77 47.24 56.00 1851.12 9.45 flight 13 71511.59 55.54 110.95 1287.53 4.27 wsh 735 33168.14 106.15 14945.98 312.45 0.14 make 2115 28957.38 102.30 310.66 283.07 0.05 >I need to use the accounting package. The following files are referenced >with acct (1m). they are acctcms(1m), acctcom(1m), acctcon(1m), acctmerg(1m), >acctprc(1m), acctsh(1m), runacct(1m), acct(2), acct(4), and utmp(4). >Has anyone used this package? how does it work? Is there a guide i can use inst >ead of the manual? has anyone used this package successfully? Please let me kno I just used the default package supplied by SGI - works poorly if you really need accounting. You may forget it, and bill the power consumption of the graphics screen as a measure... * If you have huge jobs running several days, accounting returns wrong data. See above: Our IRIS runs at nearly 100% load all day. This means that within 20 days we should have 20*24*60 = 28800 total CPU mins, but it only reports about 15000 - and the rest is just "forgotten"! (I checked system activity and the output files. There have been 8 days where the start/endpoint of one job was not on the same day. 8*24*60 = 11520 and this added up gives approx. what we expected.) * If you need to bill disk usage, I didn't figure out how to get more than one disk sample per day - suggestions welcome ! - I've heard that some users use a disk more than once a day ... I am really worried about SGI's support in this aspect. I need to bill my users for connect time, cpu time and disk usage. The fee option provided (last column in the reports, needs to be built in - is not default) is a rather underdeveloped tool. What I do now is that I just awk the output of the monthly reports and multiply the columns needed by factors. Simple and not bright, but it works at least. So the only thing we need is a really working accounting package. Is there a similar desaster on SUN's ? At least UNICOS is able to bill you correctly (sigh). If there is any package on the UNIX market, I'd really like to try it. That's for today, Reinhard ************************************************************************ * Dr. Reinhard Doelz * SWITZERLAND * * Biocomputing * * * Biozentrum * doelz%urz.unibas.ch@relay.cs.net * * Klingelbergstrasse 70 * * * CH-4056 Basel * * ************************************************************************