From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 08:36:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D5B16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:36:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9D643D1D for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:36:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (220-244-72-6.tpgi.com.au [220.244.72.6]) by mail.tpgi.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5U8ZEGE022879; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:35:15 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:35:16 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200406300735.i5U7ZtG16150@server1.web-mania.com> In-Reply-To: <200406300735.i5U7ZtG16150@server1.web-mania.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406301835.16228.agh@tpg.com.au> X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed cc: Edd Subject: Re: Hanging on shutdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:36:02 -0000 On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:35, Edd wrote: > Has anyone had any problems with thier (x86) machines taking ages to > shutdown after the syncing buffers stage? Yes I have. There was also a thread already discussing this somewhere on the current or questions mailing lists. A proposed solution, which worked for me and others was to run sync, wait X amount of time, and run sync again then shutdown. -Alastair