NonBestEffortLimit

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Psched

Description

Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations all programs running on the system.

This entry stores the setting of the Limit reserved bandwidth Group Policy (Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\QoS Packet Scheduler). Group Policy adds this entry to the registry when you enable the Limit reserved bandwidth policy.

• If you enable the policy, the system sets the value of this entry to the value you specify in the policy.
• If you disable this policy or do not configure it, Group Policy deletes this entry from the registry and the Packet Scheduler uses the default value of 20%.

Change method

To change the value of this entry, use Group Policy.

Note

This entry is not included in an Administrative Template (.adm) files provided with Windows 2000. To use this entry, you must write a policy and add it to a new or existing .adm file. For instructions, see Advanced topic: Creating custom .adm files in Windows 2000 Server Help.

This entry applies to all network adapters on the computer. You can also set a connection bandwidth limit for any particular network adapter by using the NonBestEffortLimit entry in an HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Psched\Parameters\Adapters\<Adapter-GUID> subkey. If both entries appear in the registry, the adapter-specific entry takes precedence over the policy when configuring that particular adapter.

Tip

For detailed information about particular Group Policy settings, see the Group Policy Reference (Gp.chm) on the Windows 2000 Resource Kit companion CD.

For general information about Group Policy, see Group Policy in Windows 2000 Help.

Related Entries

NonBestEffortLimit (<Adapter-GUID> subkey)