Bug 74917

Juho Vuori wrote:

>>Number:         74917
>>Category:       docs
>>Synopsis:       References to inexistent sysctl veriable kern.quantum in faq
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       non-critical
>>Priority:       medium
>>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>>State:          open
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>>Class:          doc-bug
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 10 15:30:24 GMT 2004
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>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Juho Vuori
>>Release:        5-STABLE
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>kulma.net
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>FreeBSD varsi 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #19: Tue Dec  7 14:02:02 EET 2004   juho@varsi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VARSI  i386
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>>Description:
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>FreeBSD FAQ questions 8.6 and 8.7 talk about sysctl variables kern.quantum, which in fact is kern.sched.quantum nowadays.
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>>Fix:
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Hi, Juho!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

As far as I can tell, the variable is still 'kern.quantum' in 4.X.

This is a problem that occurs whenever a new major version
is released; there exists a need for multiple versions of the
documentation to match the "real world."

I believe that doc team is attempting to make a way to
automatically build the docs with "For 4.X do this,
for 5.X do that", but I cannot guess when this will be
accomplished (and I can't find that thread ATM...) ;-)

We'll try and keep you posted.

Kevin Kinsey

Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas 2004-12-16 12:30:55 UTC

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From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida

I'll work on this.

Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas 2004-12-16 13:02:21 UTC

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From-To: open->closed

I committed a fix for this in version 1.673 of faq/book.sgml 
Thanks for letting us know this needed fixing.