Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:15:59 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902141714350.843-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150137340.66975-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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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
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