SCHED_ULE question

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"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
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