From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:18:44 +0000 (-0400) Subject: document default --autostart --startdelay=5 and comment X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~324^2~129 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e806e62fa3d6d579a09f59b7e5626ada673603ac;p=git-annex.git document default --autostart --startdelay=5 and comment --- diff --git a/doc/todo/When_autostarting_the_assistant_on_boot_delay_the_execution_2min/comment_1_49990eaf4a3d6ee89f668dfc159f5eae._comment b/doc/todo/When_autostarting_the_assistant_on_boot_delay_the_execution_2min/comment_1_49990eaf4a3d6ee89f668dfc159f5eae._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..129eeac977 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/When_autostarting_the_assistant_on_boot_delay_the_execution_2min/comment_1_49990eaf4a3d6ee89f668dfc159f5eae._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-11-02T15:14:20Z" + content=""" +There's actually an undocumented default startdelay of 5 seconds when using +autostart. I've now documented it. + +Maybe 5 seconds is too little. OTOH, 2 minutes may be a bit too much; +if the user is booting up their computer to access a new file in their +annex they'd expect it to start syncing ASAP. + +I think my justification for the 5 seconds default was that about how long +it seems to take a typical desktop system to get loaded (after the login +screen) and for the user to open a web browser, on reasonably modern +hardware. Even windows in an emulator doesn't take much longer than that. +"""]]