> I believe I've heard about a couple instances where PA was used for > health checks, load distribution, etc for "web-scale" applications on > thousands of servers running Linux. ISTR in one case it was only enabled > when needed for tracking down an issue? But this is hearsay, I'm not > involved in any of the above projects/apps. > > But no, not for chargeback so far as I know. I only saw that sort of use > in academia similar to what others have mentioned - departmental > budgeting, grant accounting, etc.
As a starving undergrad at UC San Diego in the mid 1990s, I remember charge costs being displayed to us hoi polloi users, and we got a certain amount of connect and compute time budgeted each week. If you exceeded that, you got to read a book. This was probably to discourage MUDders more than anything else, I suspect. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- "Taking advantage of the obvious performance characteristics of YELLOW!" ---
