In message <20060125201450.GE25397_at_cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wri tes: >On Wed, 2006-Jan-25 20:09:54 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>We are therefore forced to try to divine the intent behind the text, >>and as somebody who were around back in the eighties I can testify >>that the intent was to be able to bill computer users for CPU >>instructions. > >This implies that RDTSC (and equivalents) would be the best source of >accounting information, with CPU usage billed in CPU cycles used. >It's just users who expect to be billed in seconds. Right, so we bill users in "full speed CPU second equvivalents" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Jan 25 2006 - 20:20:42 UTC
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