This is about process accounting problems on DMS clients, so if you
have no knowledge nor interest, feel free to delete this one.
I've gone back to 1/97 of the archives for this list and looked thru
recent postings to comp.sys.dec, comp.unix.osf.misc, and comp.unix.osf.osf1
(altho I've yet to post this to any of them - thought I'd try here first),
and have found nothing relating to the problem.
We have DEC Alphas in a DMS (Dataless Management Services) environment
with the DMS server running 4.0D, patch level 3 and all 9 clients (save
one) running 4.0E, no patch level. The DMS client disk areas are AdvFS.
Accounting is turned on and setup everywhere per chap. 12 of the ver. 4.0
System Administration book. It all seems to work just fine on the DMS server,
but historically, the DMS clients (even under earlier 4.0 versions) have
had very weird problems. Things like nothing seemingly getting written
to the pacct file after the nitely runacct unless one "primes" it by
issuing an accounting command, like 'sa' or 'acctcms'. Also, there are
sometimes hundreds of bizarre entries under "COMMAND NAME" in the reports.
Entires like |?? or :?? with impossible "TOTAL CPU-MIN". Impossible
because they all exceed the "TOTAL REAL-MIN", which is always 0 for these
non-commands.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who's had similar problems and/or
anyone who knows what the problem/fix is.
Finally, all I'm really after are monthly total CPU usage figures in
mins/month per box, so if there's another, simpler, easier way than
dinking around with outdated, buggy BSD accounting software, I'd GLADLY
go that route!
TIA!
- Larry
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Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 22:20:34 NZST