From 11400c9ac3d8d7b2cb9b60ef30f0436ccbfd9ae1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Costello Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:05:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Replace the existing documentation for ``KERN_QUANTUM'' with a more descriptive (and generally more useful) explanation. --- lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 index 5aacd547ee6..bcf42854b8c 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 ) +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