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.
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.\" $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 $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 .\" Copyright (c) 1996
.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. .\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved.
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.El .El
.Ss Miscellaneous Options .Ss Miscellaneous Options
.Bl -ohang .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 .It Cd options LKM
Enable loadable kernel modules. Enable loadable kernel modules.
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