ql-set-cmd-timeout(8)

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💖 ql-set-cmd-timeout (8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little sysadmin baddie (ql-set-cmd-timeout, manual section 8, the system administration girlies) is here to fix your timeouts and honestly? she ate.

✨ NAME ✨

ql-set-cmd-timeout — set the timeout on the devices connected to the QLogic FC HBA. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ql-set-cmd-timeout [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

QLogic Linux Set Device Timeout Utility — yes queen, that's her full government name 👑

So here's the tea: this utility lets you set the timeout on the devices connected to the QLogic FC HBA. That timeout value applies to the commands sent to the device. Why do we care? Because sometimes target devices are lowkey taking forever to execute a command — like when there's heavy I/O and everyone's fighting for attention 😭 — and bumping that timeout up reduces the chance of the Linux SCSI mid-layer driver aborting the tasks after a timeout. no more getting ghosted mid-command, periodt.

Here's how you talk to her, depending on how much you wanna say:

  • [DEFAULT] — Display timeout of devices connected to all HOSTs
  • [HOST] — Display timeout of devices connected to HOST
  • [HOST] [TARGET] — Display timeout of devices connected to a TARGET on HOST
  • [HOST] [TARGET] [TIMEOUT] — To set timeout on devices connected to a TARGET on HOST

and now the options, the main characters of the whole thing:

  • -h, --help, ? — Prints this help message
  • -i, --interactive — Use this option to use the menu driven program

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

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cute little sign-off for the credits, as a treat: this page is brought to you by Matthias Schmitz <matthias@sig... and it's dated August 2008 — yeah, she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still slays 🌈⭐

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