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From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
Subject: diff to add quantum to src/gen/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
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>Number:         15637
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       diff to add quantum to src/gen/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 22 17:40:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 18 21:39:49 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 18 21:40:04 PST 2000
>Originator:     
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

        Manual lacks mention of both
		- availability of 	sysctl kern.quantum
		- which way to use it, ie to increase or decrease.

>How-To-Repeat:

        man 3 sysctl

>Fix:

Add to manual

*** 3.4-RELEASE/src/gen/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3	Thu Dec 23 01:42:14 1999
--- 3.4-RELEASE+jhs/src/gen/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3	Thu Dec 23 01:57:43 1999
***************
*** 283,288 ****
--- 283,289 ----
  .It KERN\_OSREV	integer	no
  .It KERN\_OSTYPE	string	no
  .It KERN\_POSIX1	integer	no
+ .It KERN\_QUANTUM	integer yes
  .It KERN\_PROC	struct proc	no
  .It KERN\_PROF	node	not applicable
  .It KERN\_SAVED\_IDS	integer	no
***************
*** 358,363 ****
--- 359,369 ----
  .It Li KERN_POSIX1
  The version of ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX 1003.1) with which the system
  attempts to comply.
+ .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> )
  .It Li KERN_PROC
  Return the entire process table, or a subset of it.
  An array of

Julian Stacey	www.jhs.muc.de  www.freebsd.org/~jhs/  bim.bsn.com/~jhs/

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: steve 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 9 10:11:29 PST 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: chris 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 18 21:39:49 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks! 
>Unformatted:
 Submitter-Id:   current-users 
 Originator:     Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org
 Organization:   FreeBSD
 Confidential:   no  
 Synopsis:       add sysctl kern.quantum 
 Severity:       non-critical  
 Priority:       medium  
 Category:       kern  
 Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 
 Class:          change-request  
 Environment: 
 
         3.4
 
