From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 14 17:20:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09411 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-25.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09406 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA01071; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:15:59 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda To: Leif Neland cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > Could it be because the system thinks everything is flushed, but something > is still in the disk's write-cache? (If such a beast exists...) I think for whatever reason the computer is being powered off before it's finished syncing.. as in it doesn't check or care. > Is a delay needed between the final sync's and the actual power off? Apparently so. There is/was a recently added sysctl for this purpose. Poke around in the archives. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message