Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:56:33 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@nihilist.org> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>, Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now Message-ID: <20000706225633.A3939@nihilist.org> In-Reply-To: <200007070154.e671s0I72958@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:53:49PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061232490.87628-100000@botbay.net> <200007070154.e671s0I72958@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:53:49PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061232490.87628-100000@botbay.net>, > Walter Campbe > ll writes: > > > > HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be > > > > because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot.... > > > > > > An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to > > > boot (which does not include the POST/memory check/BIOS screen) was a > > > 486SX/33 with 24MB of RAM running Windows NT 3.51 SP3. Of course it was > > > running off of a 5 1/4" 400MB SCSI hard drive too! > > > > Try a Solaris 2.6 machine fsck'ing an array of 14 9.1 giggers > > An Alpha my team manages with 1 TB of images on UFS takes 4 hours to > fsck. At work I've watched some of our BSD/OS 4.0.1 servers go down hard while qmail had its queue totaly backed up. And when the ufs (running softupdates) 500MB /var got to fsck'ing it could take over 8 hours. (and yes, we know something was not right there, the problem has since been solved for the most part) Not fun. -- --Travis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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