There is also usual practice by some companies to charge by the CPU. Charge
the customer $100 per user per CPU or $10,000 per CPU for unlimited number
of users. That will bring the prices to the same level charged by some very
successful software companies. You are bound to stay competitive.
On 2003.07.25 01:24, Cary Millsap wrote:
> Raj,
>
>
>
> A pretty common (and actually pretty accurate) chargeback unit is the LIO.
> You can get this information by using the standard AUDIT CONNECT feature,
> and using the LREAD value as your basis. If you wanted to get fancy, you
> might also charge by the parse call (which you're already collecting in your
> V$SESSTAT query). The reason I'd focus on these two metrics is because these
> are the two operations on an Oracle system that absolutely prevent the
> system from scaling.
>
>
>
> You could count physical I/Os as well, but that would be redundant if you're
> already catching LIO call counts.
>
>
>
> Cary Millsap
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> -----Original Message-----
> Jamadagni, Rajendra
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> Does anyone know any papers or techniques to compute resource consumption by
> users in a DB systems? This may or may not be for computing charge-back to
> the client, but my questions are
>
> 1. What do you compute?
> 2. are there any standard methods and or standard formula?
>
> I am collecting v$sesstat when a session exits, but is data alone from
> session stats sufficient? How about the work done by background processes on
> user's behalf?
>
> Do you do anything like this at your workplace? This is something that might
> be coming down the line, so I have been asked to start looking for related
> stuff.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Raj
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