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>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2013-12-02 03:26, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems that PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME has been a compile-time setting forever; > and I can't see any reason for this, but I assume there was one... at some > 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 happens > very often, of course) -- there's no point waiting for a key press at the > console because the EC2 console is output-only. > > Any objections? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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. -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSnL9WAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfWOgP/305aEt024VAmIdl07QFnFFN lPyKmhg7pGtDWSXtCO0T1jXcyWjHI9pVVXAP1ORx4q5Giu2rRrbNKEgncDPRj4+T LKeg7insxdz0ZMOm+tthJEZnaIfYSV9BpSm/tsndW2xJqVvplOsjjFqYsHX0PQRZ aHd7y/IOpVf4LGqbi86oOTPxuKuvNcT5DkyLUfS80kFAeiI32jf/pSbGgZtaw3an VBlS8n1StFHewVelc2kQHR3PZKVG0aA0iSXOuB8ueFkGaDsqevmWAT/g8zroF8Lr k2okYqW6iARtkOclAZNi3b9/eX5LdUEwFjsApPX0ofS1vjWrHZ/a50OmJZnLwwNR zQR2DJUinqb/HREYYYBoRmMytaz05hJJX4F71y2bihFIk+V/bXq6Vv+HaBzqCoNh jhZBnXlV76gesSZh15WIIQYehlxIxLuzbjsUbBB72Qn7DUNBhU9v3kqVQeYmDjuE fnKAWqZAcqTfwzQQfd4lu1uWcjDBJuwS5LZrjqB7LwD9NVzd9/SLrs9vpUpbcrtr fDcLILYIicbKv3DEdTCHdibc+t8qbDQEaN61iIGgBTMeCtcyb1EpFGn/sl/z3hkL pdLOg5UT1L/jI9OfNphxexznsZlKgl18hz4Ipxwqd1/pU4TqHW4ynC6E8VTQKVS1 oI59P4PRZ6UGk49AOM04 =8jbK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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