Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!eos!ames!dftsrv!jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 and X11R4 Message-ID: <3361@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 7 Sep 90 13:21:42 GMT References: <1990Sep7.012835.1821@servalan.uucp> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 33 In article <1990Sep7.012835.1821@servalan.uucp> rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes: >MATLEVAN@EKU.BITNET (Jerry LeVan) writes: > >>Hello Netters, >>Examining the kconfig parameters I noticed that the SLICE parameter was >>changed from a "60" to a "5". This will force a lot more context switches. >>(?So Multifinder can get some time for mac stuff?) > >>Is it possible to change SLICE on the fly or does one have to kconfig >>for new values? (That would take the fun out of X) > You gotta kconfig. >-- >Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us > rmtodd@servalan.uucp For some reason (maybe a very good one), you CAN'T change the value of SLICE. Even if you kconfig with SLICE equal to something else, it gets bumped back to 5. Well, let me be a bit more exact. I haven't been able to increase it (to 60). I don't know if it will allow changes to something close to 5, but I doubt it. Seems that something is keeping it to a 5. Good luck! -- ======================================================================= #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."