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| author | chris <chris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-10 01:05:21 +0000 |
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| committer | chris <chris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-02-10 01:05:21 +0000 |
| commit | baab6b00f5b289c1d86effb08c3e068dea0bf8db (patch) | |
| tree | 106c81cc1f21b7e8c6d2c111a1d3be8a5a3734aa /lib/libc | |
| parent | 814b2b15e447eee987d8411bbe798dfbaabc3e0c (diff) | |
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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.3 | 6 |
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 |
