Subject: Re: Configurable scheduler quantum?
To: Thorbjorn Jemander <thoan@ifm.liu.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/02/2001 14:20:48
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:49:22AM +0200, Thorbjorn Jemander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pretty new to NetBSD, and I'm wondering if
> there's a way to set the scheduler time quantum
> anywhere? I took a quick peek at the kernel
> sources, and it seemed to be set to a whopping
> 100 ms for the rr-scheduled processes, as default.
> I'd like to change that for my desktop system.

Use
options  HZ=256
(or whatever value you want). I'm not sure any value will work, though ...

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