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

[Joel Dahl]

The following reply was made to PR docs/74862; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joel Dahl <joel at automatvapen.se>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/74862: [patch] update tuning(7) man page
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:36:34 +0100

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 On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 03:54 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 > On 2004-12-08 19:39, Joel Dahl <joel at 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. :-)
 
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 Index: tuning.7
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 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
 
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