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Subject: Re: set kern.cam.scsi_delay to 2000ms on all platforms
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Ok, I've gotta be a stick in the mud and ask you how you've come to the =
conclusion that 2000 is better than 5000.  Can you provide your evidence =
and/or testing results?

Scott

On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:21 AM, Alexander Best wrote:

> a few years ago kern.cam.scsi_delay was set from 150000 to 5000. =
nowadays a
> value of 2000 should be sufficient even on old/slow hardware.
>=20
> to have cleaner code it's better to set default value to 2000 instead =
of doing
> so in every config file on every platform.
>=20
> cheers.
> alex
>=20
> On Wed Oct 20 10, Scott Long wrote:
>> You've described the "what" but not the "why".  Why do you want to =
remove this option?  Why do you want to change its value?
>>=20
>> Scott
>>=20
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
>>=20
>>> hi there,
>>>=20
>>> i've posted this patch on freebsd-hackers@, but jhb@ recommended i =
should also
>>> send it to freebsd-scsi@. basically what this patch does is to =
populate
>>> kern.cam.scsi_delay=3D2000 as the default value throughout the =
entire source
>>> tree. in addition to that it gets rid of some legacy Makefile =
entries, where
>>> kern.cam.scsi_delay was set to 150000.
>>>=20
>>> cheers.
>>> alex
>>>=20
>>> --=20
>>> a13x
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>=20
> --=20
> a13x