Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 05:15:02 +0000 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: chris warth <csw@artemis.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about 'update' Message-ID: <2858.815030102@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:08:14 PST." <199510300208.SAA00316@scooter.artemis.com>
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chris warth stands accused of writing in message ID <199510300208.SAA00316@scooter.artemis.com>: >I found the place where the 'update' frequency is set. That's the >first question - why is it so hard to change the frequency of update? >Can I just disable it in the kernel and go back to using a specialized >process in user space? sysctl -a on my box reveals: kern.update = 30 As Jordan, Soren and myself played with this number a bit in a fit of madness after a long day at CeBIT, I know that it works :-) To alter it: sysctl -w kern.update=<blah> I would think that setting it to zero is NOT a good idea :-) Gary
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