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With this statement you can set up the minimum and maximum timeslices for threads.

TIMESLICE=Min,Max

Default settings:

• TIMESLICE=32,32

Parameters:

• Min

  Min can be in the range from 32 to 65535 .
  Default = 32
  This value is expressed in milliseconds. If this parameter is not set it defaults to 32 .

• Max

  Max can be in the range from 32 to 65535 .
  Default = 32
  This value is expressed in milliseconds.
  If this parameter is not set it defaults to the same value as the min parameter is set to .

See the examples below.

To set the minimum timeslice to 50 milliseconds and the maximum timeslice to 67 milliseconds, add this line to your config.sys file:

If you want to set both values to 40 milliseconds use this line:

To use the default value for minimum and 44 milliseconds for maximum timeslice, use this line in your config.sys file:

Platform Support:

OS/2 2.x	OS/2 3.0	OS/2 4.0
Yes	Yes	Yes