From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 9 15: 9:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40DA37B416 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g09N9Zq47691; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:09:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:09:35 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200201092309.g09N9Zq47691@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: priority and swapping: X-Newsgroups: mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch In-Reply-To: Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >What exactly is it trying to do? >scheduel a process for swappin based purely on time swapped out? >doesn't priority (despite the names in the code) come into it? >Was it originally there in some pre-freebsd version? Yes, no, and yes, respectively. Go back and reread your Daemon Book. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message