Julian Elischer <jul...@whistle.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 May 1999, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> >> I've left out idprio(8) for now. >> >> If someone could point me to a man page explaining the use of >> kern.quantum, and when it might be useful to fiddle with that knob, I'll >> happily add that reference to the setiathome man page. > > In 3.2 kern.quantum is set to be teh frequency of how often the kernel > re-evaluates the scheduling. Defualt is 10 (10 times per second). > changing it to 50 > (sysctl -w kern.quantum=50) would make it re-evaluate this more often. > in -current and post 3.2 (as of a few minutes ago) it is > measured as uSeconds thus the default is 100000 and the equivalent > new value would be 20000. (sysctl -w kern.quantum=20000) > > There were various reasons for the change and hopefully few people had > used the (new) kern.quantum feature so the changeover will hopefully > impact few people. Thanks, Julian, but I think _I_ know how it works. Please point me to the relevant man page in 2.2, 3.x and -current, so I can include that reference in setiathome's man mage. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Muehlendamm 12 Phone: +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22087 Hamburg <stefan.bet...@hanse.de> Hamburg, Germany <s...@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
