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To: chris warth <csw@artemis.com>
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Subject: Re: questions about 'update' 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:08:14 PST."
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 05:15:02 +0000
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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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