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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:12:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: Quantum size?
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Doug Ambrisko wrote:

~~| 	I would like to know the quantum size of FreeBSD2.2.2.
~~
~~I'm not sure when the change went in ... but it can be whatever you want 
~~(just not 0).  Default is 10ms.  We change it to make FreeBSD run more 
~~"batch-like".
~~
~~% sysctl kern.quantum
~~kern.quantum: 10
~~% 
Not in 2.2.2-RELEASE

%(2_~): uname -a
FreeBSD jandrese.async.vt.edu 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Fri
Oct 10 17:00:31 EDT 1997
jandrese@jandrese.async.vt.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/NESSUS  i386
%(3_~): sysctl kern.quantum
sysctl: Unknown oid 'kern.quantum'
%1 (4_~): 

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