Re: error in documentation of erl +swct flag

Rickard Green <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Richard Carlsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The erl documentation (http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html) currently
> says:
> +sws very_eager|eager|medium|lazy|very_lazy
>
> Set scheduler wake cleanup threshold. Default is medium. This flag controls
> how eager schedulers should be requesting wake up due to certain cleanup
> operations. When a lazy setting is used, more outstanding cleanup operations
> can be left undone while a scheduler is idling. When an eager setting is
> used, schedulers will more frequently be woken, potentially increasing
> CPU-utilization.
>
> NOTE: This flag may be removed or changed at any time without prior notice.
>
> +sws default|legacy
>
> Set scheduler wakeup strategy. Default strategy changed in
> erts-5.10/OTP-R16A. This strategy was previously known as proposal in
> OTP-R15. The legacy strategy was used as default from R13 up to and
> including R15.
>
> NOTE: This flag may be removed or changed at any time without prior notice.
>
>
> I think that the first of these should be +swct (which was first mentioned
> in the R16B01 release notes).
>
>         /Richard
>
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Thanks for the bug report. I just happened to notice this last week
too, so there is already a fix for it in the maint and master branches
<https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5e72adfd8b56f50416d66a018028e2e6895032e0>.

Regards,
Rickard
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Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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