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DORMANTWAIT

   DORMANTWAIT specifies, in seconds, the amount of time that can
   elapse without a significant event before the system treats
   a low-priority computable process as a DORMANT process for
   scheduling purposes. (A low-priority process is a non real-time
   process whose current priority is equal to or less than the value
   specified by the system parameter DEFPRI [default=4].) After
   SUSP (suspended) processes, DORMANT processes are the most likely
   candidates for memory reclamation by the swapper.

   Increasing the value of DORMANTWAIT can increase the interval
   that a low priority process blocks a high priority process if
   that low priority process is holding a lock or resource that the
   higher priority process is waiting for.

   DORMANTWAIT is a DYNAMIC parameter.