> > > Make that a chargeable group and we get the ability to partition a big
> > > machine up by department and to do sensible charging schemes. For big number
> > > crunchers that is an issue.
> > A wonderful idea. Would imposing a memory usage quota be a extrememly
> > difficult task, Alan?
>
> I can see some semantics issues like who do you charge for a shared page,
> both, half each, ... (I like half each as it will encourage people to run
> two of the same job at once as its cheaper on machine resources!)
>
> Alan
>
You could always ignore shared memory to get this out the door. :-)
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