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by **Dean Rocheste** » Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Hello all

I am wondering your thoughts on the performance impact of turning on
system accounting. We have 10 RS6000s of differing types.

I have used it in the past on other Unix boxes, but there is some
concern with my new employer that the info obtained from sys accounting
will not be worth the performance impact.

We are trying to get a handle on the system utilization figures for the
upper management.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Dean-O

by **Haral Tsitsiva** » Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:00:00

I remember reading a long time ago that it consumes about 2% of cpu
time... I'd say well worth it...

> Hello all

> I am wondering your thoughts on the performance impact of turning on
> system accounting. We have 10 RS6000s of differing types.

> I have used it in the past on other Unix boxes, but there is some
> concern with my new employer that the info obtained from sys accounting
> will not be worth the performance impact.

> We are trying to get a handle on the system utilization figures for the
> upper management.

> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> Dean-O

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System Accounting and Chargeback, Backup and Restore, System
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by **BladeHea** » Sat, 06 Mar 1999 04:00:00

I wouldn't wory so much about cpu time, but look more to the I/O hit you're
going to experience from all the accounting info being wrtten to disk...

>Subject: Re: Sys Accounting and performance impact???

>Date: 3/3/99 5:39 PM Eastern Standard Time

>I remember reading a long time ago that it consumes about 2% of cpu
>time... I'd say well worth it...

>> Hello all

>> I am wondering your thoughts on the performance impact of turning on
>> system accounting. We have 10 RS6000s of differing types.

>> I have used it in the past on other Unix boxes, but there is some
>> concern with my new employer that the info obtained from sys accounting
>> will not be worth the performance impact.

>> We are trying to get a handle on the system utilization figures for the
>> upper management.

>> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>> Dean-O

>--
>--Haral Tsitsivas, Voice: (949) 380-5975, E-mail:

>or
>--Haral Tsitsivas, UniSolutions Associates (http://www.unisol.com/)
> System Accounting and Chargeback, Backup and Restore, System
>Administration