Re: Update for FAQ-14.html (autonicetime on BSD/OS)

On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 11:50:54PM +0100, Bert Driehuis wrote:
> Under "process priority":
>
> The autonice behavior is a leftover from the history of BSD as a
> university OS. It penalises CPU bound jobs by nicing them after using 600
> CPU seconds.
>
> Adding
> sysctl -w kern.autonicetime=0
> to /etc/rc.local will disable the behavior systemwide.

It's actually not a leftover, but newly added.

I just checked under BSD/OS 3.1 (previous supported version) and BSD/OS
4.0.1 (next-to-most recent), and it is in 4.0.1 but not 3.1. I suspect
it's rather been added mainly to catch runaway processes, or help slow
them down enough that the admin can catch them.
  -- Clifton

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