Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 07:42:24 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable Message-ID: <1386164544.25171.55411873.4F5A7BD4@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org> References: <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013, at 2:26, 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? > I tend to cheat this problem by using watchdog on my hardware servers. This sounds quite convenient as I can't use watchdog in VMs...
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