Jon Lindgren wrote:

> [ ... ]  I've
> done some grokking in there, but I have to admin there are some strange
> ones which I can't guess about (most of which probably don't have anything
> to do with what I'm looking for, but...):
> 
> kern.fscale

This returns the fixed point scaling factor that some kernel variables
use.  It's a sysctl to allow for the (extremely unlikely) scenario of
the value changing in the future but still allowing programs like ps(1)
and top(1) to show sane output if userland and kernel don't match.

Simon.
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