From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 19 1: 2:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kogge.Hanse.DE (kogge.hanse.de [192.76.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1007114C88 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 01:02:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan.bethke@hanse.de) Received: from transit.hanse.de (transit-a.Hanse.DE [193.174.9.161]) by kogge.Hanse.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA63884; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:01:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stefan.bethke@hanse.de) Received: from monster.transit-a.hanse.de (monster [193.174.9.163]) by transit.hanse.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17540; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:01:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stefan.bethke@hanse.de) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:02:29 +0200 From: Stefan Bethke To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/setiathome Makefile ports/astro/setiathome/files setiathome.sh setiathome.1 ports/astro/setiathome/pkg INSTALL Message-ID: <19288670.3136096949@monster.transit-a.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: Originator-Info: login-id=stb; server=transit.transit-a.hanse.de X-Mailer: Mulberry (MacOS) [1.4.0, s/n U-301178] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer 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 Hamburg, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message