Commit 3537f780 authored by Matt Traudt's avatar Matt Traudt Committed by Nick Mathewson
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Add notes about OS support for our scheduler types

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changes/ticket24254

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  o Documentation:

    Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various scheduler types.

    Closes ticket 24254.

doc/tor.1.txt

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@@ -801,14 +801,16 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS 
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    **KIST**: Kernel Informed Socket Transport. Tor will use the kernel tcp

    information stack per-socket to make an informed decision on if it should

    send or not the data. (Only available on Linux)

    send or not the data. As implemented, KIST will only work on Linux kernel

    version 2.6.39 or higher.

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    **KISTLite**: Same as KIST but without kernel support which means that tor

    will use all the same mecanics as KIST but without the TCP information the

    kernel can provide.

    kernel can provide. KISTLite will work on all kernels and operating

    systems.

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    **Vanilla**: The scheduler that tor has always used that is do as much as

    possible or AMAP.

    possible or AMAP. Vanilla will work on all kernels and operating systems.



[[KISTSchedRunInterval]] **KISTSchedRunInterval** __NUM__ **msec**::

    If KIST or KISTLite is used in Schedulers option, this control at which