Process accounting different on RHEL 4 within a VM

[David Bloomfield]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:37 -0400, John Murtari wrote:
> Folks,
>         Wondering if anyone else has seen or can explain this.
> We run process accounting (psacct) to track some user and task
> activity by CPU time used.  We use CPU time to insure different
> versions of a product still run as efficiently.

It sounds like the remedy won't be directly useful to you (VMware ESX
only), but this article explains what's going on:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/526

David