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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes:

Mike> Also, what did you adjust kern.polling.user_frac to ?  Perhaps
Mike> post sysctl -a kern.polling

I'll try and remember to keep that data, but from memory, user_frac
was 20 for most tests.  We tried it at 50 and 0.  It didn't seem to
make much difference as not much was running in userland anyways.

Dave.

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