>: "John H. Frantz" <frantz@centrum.is> writes:
>: A client needs to somehow measure or estimate online activity by
>: individual user. This company serves a group of other companies with a
>: centralized database and needs to charge them based on their activity.
>:
>: They are using Online 7.11 which, like all Online versions from 6.0
>: onward, consists of processes that are independent of user processes.
>: Therefore, measuring user process activity (using some unix tools) does
>: not account for Online activity, which is about 90% of the total cpu
>: usage.
I may well be missing the point (believe it or not! :), but how about
looking at something like OnProbe to sample user activity, or a cron-driven
onstat -g ses (or something like that) ?
HTH.
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