On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > > #define SPEED_LIMIT 100
> > > Shouldnt this be a kernel boot option rather than a hardcoded define.
> > maybe, but i thought this to be a non-issue. There must be something
> > terribly wrong about a system that has no idle disk time. (and in that
> > case, 100k or 1000k will probably make no difference)
>
> Youre assuming that you know better than anyone else that noone will ever
> want to tune this.
no the #define was rather a small inexpensive sign towards people: 'we
could tune this if we really wanted to'. Now since there are good
arguments for making it runtime tunable (which i didnt think of before),
i'll add it as a sysctl, no problem. Sometimes such tunable parameters end
up hardwired, the above case was still undecided.
-- mingo
