SysIII swapping strangeness

[John Collins]

In article <167 at plx.UUCP> jk at plx.UUCP (John Kullmann) writes:
>1) Is this 2 second business left over from the pdp11
>	where the address spaces were smaller?  Should
>	I/do people change this?

Yes it is a leftover from pdp11 days.
I have played around with a program called "tune" which adjusts both
these 2 constants and can make response time *VASTLY* better (although
it depends what you are doing).

>2) Shouldn't the swapper be changed to at least let the
>	poor sucker get a few ticks before letting him
>	go back out?

Yes

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