In article <4ee6595c.3080...@cran.org.uk>, br...@cran.org.uk writes: >On 12/12/2011 19:23, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> Where do you get that idea? I've never seen any evidence for this >> proposition (although the claim is repeated often enough). What are >> the specific circumstances that make this useful? Where did the >> number come from? > >It's just something I've heard repeated, and people claiming that >setting it improves performance. > >This explains how the value 224 was obtained: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-September/058686.html
Not so far as I can see. The message does suggest that it helps if you are running a CPU-hog GUI, which seems plausible to me, but doesn't justify making it the default -- particularly when the setting is undocumented. (It appears to control how CPU-bound a process can be and still preempt another even more CPU-bound process, so using this as a "desktop performance" "fix" looks doubly wrong.) -GAWollman _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
