From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 22 03:46:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA02291 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 03:46:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (gateway.lucky.net [195.145.31.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA02286 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 03:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archer@grape.carrier.kiev.ua) Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (root@sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.101]) by burka.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.6/8.Who.Cares) with ESMTP id NAA07006 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:45:56 +0200 (EET) Received: from bucefal.carrier.kiev.ua (bucefal.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.110]) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA22029 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:46:59 +0200 (EET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bucefal.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.6/8.8.6/8.Who.Cares) with UUCP id NAA14471 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:47:15 +0200 (EET) Received: (from archer@localhost) by grape.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13981; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:44:44 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <19971122134442.44444@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:44:42 +0200 From: Alexander Litvin To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Giving up syncing disks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, everybody! On one of our boxes -- 2.2.5-STABLE, running squid web cache, I observed such a thing: after "shutdown -h", it tries to sync disks, and gives up, unable to do it. Consiquently, when coming up it is forced to fsck, which is quite long, because cache is located at 4G slice. It should be mentioned that this big slice is mounted async and noatime (which proved to make a drastic speed improvement). What can I do to prevent such unclean shutdowns? Any help/clue would be greatly appreciated. -- Litvin Alexander