From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 04:26:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08812 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08807 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id VAA12529; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:26:11 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36AF0043.AF647B92@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:02:12 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day CC: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? References: <199901270144.TAA27675@home.dragondata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Day wrote: > > Yep. This patch seems to fix that. It queues jobs up. After it reaches a > huge number of queued jobs, it starts doubling the execution rate. Every > time you double the maximum number of allowable jobs in the queue, you > double the run speed. Very coarse, but it does self tune to catch up. Oh, and, btw, I didn't see any "this is a huge number of queued jobs" parameter. Don't you think people would like to have control over that, including the ability to say "there is no such a thing"? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message