[ioquake3] changed com_maxfps behaviour

[Thilo Schulz]

On Sunday, 20. February 2011 02:59:50 Daniel Gibson wrote:
> GEM and KMS are coming to FreeBSD, see
> http://www.ixsystems.com/ix/news/freebsd-foundation-announces-new-project
> Of course this doesn't help right now.

Graphics drivers do not play a part in this.

> Maybe Thilo or somebody else knows what recent changes in Linux fixed
> this (maybe it's scheduling-related?) and FreeBSD already has similar
> stuff that just has to be configured accordingly?

Apparently there was a patch recently that made the select() syscall timeout 
independent from the kernel Hz setting for the scheduler. This allows sub-
millisecond precision in the timeout, which is ideal for what we need.

-- 
Thilo Schulz
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