From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 15:50:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F09716A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C9643D4C for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB9FoVUl077134 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iB9FoVUg077133; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 GMT Message-Id: <200412091550.iB9FoVUg077133@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: Joel Dahl Subject: Re: docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joel Dahl List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:50:31 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/74862; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joel Dahl To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:36:34 +0100 --=-FpG7KYPhzL6Yn4BKolKp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 03:54 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-12-08 19:39, Joel Dahl wrote: > > (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. > > IDE_DELAY is still used by the wd(4) driver of PC98. Conditional > inclusion of text in manpages is not possible AFAIK, so we could > probably reword that part a bit to make it more obvious that it only > applies to PC98. New patch attached. Any better? (I had to check src/sys/pc98/pc98/wd.c for a reference to IDE_DELAY. If this is an option available for the kernel configuration, why doesn't NOTES for PC98 mention it?) > > > (2) Reword things a bit since SCSI_DELAY defaults to 5000 milliseconds > > in CURRENT, not 15000. > > This part looks good. > Thanks. :-) --=-FpG7KYPhzL6Yn4BKolKp Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=tuning2.diff Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=tuning2.diff; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 9 Dec 2004 15:17:45 -0000 @@ -814,17 +814,15 @@ 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). +to something below 5 seconds could work (especially with modern drives). Reducing .Dv IDE_DELAY -also works but you have to be a little more careful. +(only available for PC98) also works but you have to be a little more careful. .Pp There are a number of .Dv *_CPU --=-FpG7KYPhzL6Yn4BKolKp--