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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!news.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Date: 19 Aug 1995 01:11:00 -0600 Organization: The Village Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4142q4$lsf@rover.village.org> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <40nfjb$f43@centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM> <40qg1j$g2m@westnet.westnet.com> <412tr0$1p2@piglet.amscons.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51279 comp.unix.solaris:43612 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:602 In article <412tr0$1p2@piglet.amscons.com>, Michael Bryan <michael@piglet.amscons.com> wrote: >My favorite in VMS was one of the tunable system parameters (I don't recall >which one anymore), which was measured in units of "microfortnights". It >happens to be just over a second (1.2096 seconds, to be exact.) Somebody >was seriously bored that day. ;-) BOOTTIME(?) This was the amount of time that it would wait to try to automatically boot. There was a note that said the microfortnight was implemented the same as seconds. Warner -- Warner Losh "VMS Forever" home: imp@village.org Cyberspace Development, Inc work: imp@marketplace.com Makers of TIA, The Internet Adapter. http://marketplace.com/