Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:17:15 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE question Message-ID: <xzpk7e5b5ms.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030408161241.S70285@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> ("Wilkinson,Alex"'s message of "Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:16:43 %2B0930 (CST)") References: <20030407143118.V1049@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <xzpk7e6cxxf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030408161241.S70285@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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"Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> writes: > Cool, thanks for that, but what's the diff between: > > #sysctl kern.quantum > kern.quantum: 100000 > > AND > > #sysctl kern.quntum > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.quntum' > > What is meant to 'quantum' ? It's the maximum number of ticks a process can run without being preempted. It's specific to the 4BSD scheduler, so you can use its presence (or absence) to determine which scheduler is in use. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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