Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:39:57 +0100 From: "Joel Dahl" <joel@automatvapen.se> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page Message-ID: <20041208183946.B52E237E45@smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200412081840.iB8IeOYT086785@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 74862
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] update tuning(7) man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 08 18:40:24 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joel Dahl
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dude.automatvapen.se 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sat Nov 13 19:50:36 CET 2004 joel@dude.automatvapen.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WRK i386
>Description:
(1) Remove reference to IDE_DELAY. I'm not sure
that my memory is correct, but I think that
it was removed a long time ago, so I don't
see any point in keeping it here.
(2) Reword things a bit since SCSI_DELAY defaults
to 5000 milliseconds in CURRENT, not 15000.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- tuning.diff begins here ---
Index: tuning.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -r1.69 tuning.7
--- tuning.7 16 Nov 2004 21:22:09 -0000 1.69
+++ tuning.7 8 Dec 2004 18:03:44 -0000
@@ -814,17 +814,12 @@
by a megabyte or more, leaving more memory available for applications.
.Pp
.Dv SCSI_DELAY
-and
-.Dv IDE_DELAY
may be used to reduce system boot times.
The defaults are fairly high and
-can be responsible for 15+ seconds of delay in the boot process.
+can be responsible for 5+ seconds of delay in the boot process.
Reducing
.Dv SCSI_DELAY
-to 5 seconds usually works (especially with modern drives).
-Reducing
-.Dv IDE_DELAY
-also works but you have to be a little more careful.
+to something below 5 seconds could work (especially with modern drives).
.Pp
There are a number of
.Dv *_CPU
--- tuning.diff ends here ---
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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