There are people using Linux boxes, and Linux clusters for large scale jobs.
Various big batch cluster schedulers are available too.
> Usually you still may do accounting. Well, I know it has some drawbacks, but for
> most cases, you can create bills for your users, in dependancy to how much they
> used your machine... - Isn't that what you want ?
Yes. Well quite often its how departments split the bill for the 8 alphas
or whatever they bought together
>
> Since LINUX is still run mostly on single-User-machines (Workstations ?! :-) ),
> you won't need such a kernel-feature. And since it would decrease performace, I would make
> at best a "configurable option" for the kernel.
Its a configurable item for sure as is all accounting/auditing
Alan