Has anyone played around with using the VM accounting data, along with Linux usage data (sar data for example - capturing process usage) to come up with a way to assign usage as the VM level (i.e. host CPU hours) to individual processes?
I'm thinking of a grid environment, where you would want to assign usage to accounts -- not at the server level - but at the process level. Given a set CPU hour rate at the VM level - you could (hopefully) accurately determine the real cost of individual Linux processes. Maybe cut C0 z/VM accounting records daily from Linux (using cpint) to feed the data to the VM accounting file. I'm not sure it's even possible.. but perhaps through some statistical formula (overall cost of CPU for VM guest is x - process y used 10% of it) you can get close? Any thoughts.. ? ScottR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
