Comment 14 for bug 1949634

Hello Bill Miller,

That's a good question that we probably should document better in our manpage. I'll add this to the description of this bug as well.

First a clarification: If your machine is not "attached" to a Ubuntu Advantage subscription, then the metering job does not do anything.

To turn it off, just run the following:
ua config set metering_timer=0

Hope this helps!