Subject: Re: Autonice bugging my but!
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: current-users
Date: 01/21/1996 16:23:16
> > option AUTORENICE=10 # (minutes)
>
> Why not a sysctl? Let the default value be 600, and if you don't want
> it, set it to an extremely high value.  Or better, have the sysctl
> get/set code for that variable make a set of 0 mean ULONG_MAX, and read
> ULONG_MAX as 0.  I don't see a good reason why this would have to be a
> compile-time option, so better to make it run-time settable.

Well, i'd prefer to compile in the sysctl's default value rather than forget to
set it in /etc/rc.local. :-) Just give people who want a different default
value the possibility to compile it into their kernel.


Hubert

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