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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:41:35 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 7749de244014 - main - Add new kern.vt.slow_down tunable.
Message-ID:  <202411231741.4ANHfZ6P074327@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <0A91BA56-075F-4466-9E6A-4F834D68B33D@yahoo.com>
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Mark Millard writes:
> On Nov 23, 2024, at 08:18, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> Sounds to me like the wording should be in terms of
> 0 vs. positive numbers: both accurate to the existing
> behavior and invariant to such potential changes
> --and that the code is doing what you intended. No
> claims made about negative numbers, so no false claims
> made.

Anybody who sets a negative value and expect the console to become
faster will be disappointed :-)

Feel free to augment my text if you think it is important enough.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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