From a16598462b114eb4f55a663060a2d6fa35e87ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: junyoung Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:25:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY. Hopefully it should become the default before the next major release is available. Idea of documenting it suggested (and Ok'ed) by Hubert Feyrer. --- share/man/man4/options.4 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4 index d24421c92b0b..7dafd7a5dac7 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/options.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/options.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.190 2002/11/19 04:16:02 simonb Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.191 2002/11/29 04:25:38 junyoung Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996 .\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. @@ -789,6 +789,13 @@ servers. .El .Ss Miscellaneous Options .Bl -ohang +.It Cd options NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY +Enable experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O. +It gives higher priority to read requests over write requests, and thereby +improves the overall system responsiveness considerably under heavy disk +I/O load. +.Em NOTE : +It's not yet proven to be stable, so use it at your own risk. .It Cd options LKM Enable loadable kernel modules. See