docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page

Joel Dahl joel at automatvapen.se
Wed Dec 8 18:40:24 UTC 2004


>Number:         74862
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] update tuning(7) man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 08 18:40:24 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joel Dahl
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dude.automatvapen.se 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sat Nov 13 19:50:36 CET 2004 joel at dude.automatvapen.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WRK i386

	
>Description:
(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.

(2) Reword things a bit since SCSI_DELAY defaults
    to 5000 milliseconds in CURRENT, not 15000.

	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	
--- tuning.diff begins here ---
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	8 Dec 2004 18:03:44 -0000
@@ -814,17 +814,12 @@
 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).
-Reducing
-.Dv IDE_DELAY
-also works but you have to be a little more careful.
+to something below 5 seconds could work (especially with modern drives).
 .Pp
 There are a number of
 .Dv *_CPU
--- tuning.diff ends here ---


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