From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 15 14:55: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C16114DFD for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA44967; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 14:53:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Matthew Dillon Cc: David Greenman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available In-Reply-To: <199905152126.OAA10724@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG beware, I think this sysctl does something different on 3.x as I think there was a code freeze on 3.x when we fixed it.. On Sat, 15 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This reduces the effect an idprio seti background task has on the rest of > the system. > > sysctl -w kern.quantum=20000 > > The default is 100,000 ( 100ms ) which, for a modern cpu, is much more > chunky then it needs to be. Reducing it to 20ms makes a big difference. > At 100000 I can feel the slow response with seti running in the background. > At 20000 it is much less pronounced. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message