Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Date: Friday, March 28, 2008 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?


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Hello

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:11:53AM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Anybody ever do it and can tell me how long=20
> > a shutdown takes?
>=20
> As long as you need to strike the keys.

Not really true. I have set my dirty cache timeout to 10 minutes, so it
can hold some few hundred megabytes of unsynced data (happens rarely),
so it can take like 10 seconds to dump them to disk.

But with clean cache, it is as fast as hitting a hard switch.

--=20
Hallowed be the zeroes and ones

Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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