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From: John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:15:40PM +0200, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> ...
> IMHO CSA, ELSA and BSD accounting are too similar to have more than one of 
> them in the kernel. We should either improve BSD accounting to do the job, 
> or kill it in favor of a different implementation.
> 
> Tim

We should at least have common data collection in the kernel.

I could more easily understand different accounting packages on top of
that that might meet different needs of different classes of users.

John