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Date:      Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:11:47 -0500
From:      Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable
Message-ID:  <529CBF53.3090400@allanjude.com>
In-Reply-To: <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org>
References:  <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org>

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On 2013-12-02 03:26, Colin Percival wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems that PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME has been a compile-time setting fo=
rever;
> and I can't see any reason for this, but I assume there was one... at s=
ome
> point in the distant past.
>
> The attached patch makes it a loader tunable and sysctl.  My reason for=
 wanting
> this is to make EC2 images reboot faster after a panic (not that it hap=
pens
> very often, of course) -- there's no point waiting for a key press at t=
he
> console because the EC2 console is output-only.
>
> Any objections?
>
>
>
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This would be very useful for me as well, we almost always run GENERIC,
so being able to set this via loader/sysctl would allow us to make a
panic'd box wait a reasonable amount of time for me to view the console.

--=20
Allan Jude


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