"Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson_at_dsto.defence.gov.au> writes: > Cool, thanks for that, but what's the diff between: > > #sysctl kern.quantum > kern.quantum: 100000 > > AND > > #sysctl kern.quntum > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.quntum' > > What is meant to 'quantum' ? It's the maximum number of ticks a process can run without being preempted. It's specific to the 4BSD scheduler, so you can use its presence (or absence) to determine which scheduler is in use. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des_at_ofug.orgReceived on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 02:17:19 UTC
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