Re: Pageaccounting.

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 31-Jan-02 Petrov M.I. wrote:
> Hi ALL.
> I am using apsfilter 6.1.1-6 
> LPRng 3.8.2-1
> HP LJ 1100 on parallel port &
> kernel 2.2.19 (Debian).
> How do pageaccounting?
> Now I have following in my acct file:
> 
> jobstart '-Hdorado' '-nlyu' '-Plp' '-kcfA037dorado' '-b13970'
> '-t2002-01-24-11:14:22.000'
> jobend '-Hdorado' '-nlyu' '-Plp' '-kcfA037dorado' '-b13970'
> '-t2002-01-24-11:14:25.000'
[...]

Page accounting is not a trivial matter. To be reliable, you'll
definitely need a hardware counter, since page counting on the
software side fails miserably when the filter gets "raw" input
or some other format that can't be handled properly w.r.t the
page count.

The LPRng-HOWTO has a pretty decent coverage of accounting and
related stuff, but be prepared to do serious fiddling.

(And don't spend dollars counting pennies.)


Michael