From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 18:36:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5200A16A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:36:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jay@codegurus.org) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED69043D45 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jay@codegurus.org) Received: from jayton.plus.com ([84.92.156.191] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DuaTM-0002LU-EL; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:36:12 +0100 Message-ID: <42DBF699.7000906@codegurus.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:36:09 +0100 From: Jayton Garnett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de References: <200507181302.j6ID2k3M012519@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200507181302.j6ID2k3M012519@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jay@codegurus.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:36:22 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: >Definitely not. When I compare Windows XP and FreeBSD on >the same hardware (notebook with ATA disk), then Windows' >shutdown process is a lot faster than FreeBSD's. In fact, >when I shut it down under XP for the first time, the power >was off so quickly that I thought someting must have gone >wrong. But everything was OK and normal. > > > Yes XP's shutdown time is quicker on a fresh install, but give it a few weeks or months (depending on how you use XP) and you will notice that the shutdown time increases. Right now my XP pro takes about 20 or more seconds to shutdown. I am sure this is due to the MFT under a NTFS installation, FreeBSD does not appear to have this problem over extended use, and there is no way of stopping the MTF growth problem (as far as I know) >It is already irritating that FreeBSD sits there doing >nothing for ~ 5 seconds before turning power off. Windows >doesn't do that. (Yes I know, there's a sysctl for that, >but I suspect that it's not save to modify it in FreeBSD.) > >Best regards > Oliver > > > -- Kind regards, Jayton Garnett email: jay@codegurus.org Main : www.uberhacker.co.uk Test server: jayton.plus.com