Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:50:31 GMT From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page Message-ID: <200412091550.iB9FoVUg077133@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/74862; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> 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 <joel@automatvapen.se> 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--
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