language about softupdates to reference this fact, as well as slightly
moderate the "recommend Softupdates for use on all filesystems" to
"most filesystems" so as to be consistent with what sysinstall selects.
for consistency with the rest of the document. Since we've already
described the properties of loader tunables elsewhere, remove the
duplicate description of it being a boot-time property.
MFC after: 3 days
16384/2048.
Following recent discussions on the -arch mailing list, involving dillon
and mckusick, this change parallels the one made over a decade ago when
the default was bumped up from 4096/512.
This should provide significant performance improvements for most
folks, less significant performance losses for a few folks and
wasted space lost to large fragments for many folks.
For discussion, please see the following thread in the -arch archive:
Subject: Using a larger block size on large filesystems
The discussion ceases to be relevant when the issue of partitioning
schemes is raised.
default now. Discuss why that's good. Note that there are still
some situations where turning it off may be advantageous, including
situations where there are network outages and it's desirable to
have TCP sessions last beyond the outage.
Reviewed by: fenner
Suggested by: silby
in some environments, this may result in the early termination of
legitimate TCP sessions during temporary network outages. However,
maintain a strong recommendation that this be used when many network
clients are dialup.
Requested by: fenner
reboots.
Also add a `NOTES' section that reminds the reader that this man page
just documents the system default, and that the hierarchy of a given
site is at the system administrators discretion.
PR: docs/29525
discussed on the arch@ mailinglist (after repo-copy).
sys.mk will .error if it finds /etc/defaults/make.conf but include
it anyways (this is the same behaviour as with the make.conf.local
removal).
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has BDEFLAGS commented out now,
since it's only an example file.
Adjust all textes that talk about make.conf or defaults/make.conf to
match the new situation.
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'
BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...
Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days
