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authorchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2000-02-10 01:05:21 +0000
committerchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2000-02-10 01:05:21 +0000
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Replace the existing documentation for ``KERN_QUANTUM'' with a more
descriptive (and generally more useful) explanation.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.36
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 5aacd54..bcf4285 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -411,10 +411,8 @@ Structure giving the sizes of the above arrays.
.El
.ne 1i
.It Li KERN_QUANTUM
-Reduce to gives interactive users better response at the expense of other
-long running heavy tasks such as big parallel makes.
-.\" (this comment from something sent in german to
-.\" de-bsd-chat@DE.FreeBSD.ORG from Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> )
+The maximum period of time, in microseconds, for which a process is allowed
+to run without being preempted if other processes are in the run queue.
.It Li KERN_SAVED_IDS
Returns 1 if saved set-group and saved set-user ID is available.
.It Li KERN_SECURELVL
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