As I recall, 200 was the default quantum on a vax 780 20 years ago. Even 10 years ago, interactive response could be sped up a lot by cranking quantum down to single digits.
At 11:28 PM 10/30/2001 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:00:07PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>which are much shorter than the minimum timeslice (which is >>typically of the order of 200 ms). > >200ms? Wouldn't this be an error? I can't really imagine that one would >typically have only five time slices per second :-) > >/* Steinar */ >-- >Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ >_________________________________________________________________________ >Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm >Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers > _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers