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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Quantum size?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.94.971106143224.2879A-100000@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> from Sunthiti Patchararungruang at "Nov 6, 97 02:33:45 pm"
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:46:45 -0800 (PST)
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Sunthiti Patchararungruang writes:
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| 	I would like to know the quantum size of FreeBSD2.2.2.

I'm not sure when the change went in ... but it can be whatever you want 
(just not 0).  Default is 10ms.  We change it to make FreeBSD run more 
"batch-like".

% sysctl kern.quantum
kern.quantum: 10
% 

Doug A.