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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-02 11:18:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-02 11:18:44 -0400 |
| commit | 8fe3b3cb61ad80d177dddbb7b8b3d7345f98df2d (patch) | |
| tree | 5d3547e96e820870188cdc987d394d93b4a04639 | |
| parent | 184a20540beb47963afbca64bd9a3e96dbb7b020 (diff) | |
document default --autostart --startdelay=5 and comment
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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 000000000..129eeac97 --- /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. +"""]] |