From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 5 13:32:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0720FAD0 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:32:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk) Received: from nm31-vm7.bullet.mail.sg3.yahoo.com (nm31-vm7.bullet.mail.sg3.yahoo.com [106.10.151.198]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 985622E6A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [106.10.166.122] by nm31.bullet.mail.sg3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2013 13:30:29 -0000 Received: from [106.10.150.24] by tm11.bullet.mail.sg3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2013 13:30:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1025.mail.sg3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2013 13:30:29 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 764873.95668.bm@omp1025.mail.sg3.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 14369 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Sep 2013 13:30:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com.hk; s=s1024; t=1378387829; bh=UnwFZ+yAA4qlnoPaTNX5jh4WI3kRnmlto3PTnBU0Fg0=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=RwAimWEIsSx0fOxcXBIS5MorXmhetEWp56crmyFq02R6FbwDYiuf+TFORO+zzFf3Br5drBAA2w2vMJftY3/mHGqGo6mEr2oOcaRGSMs07U7xTOk4+u/1tkD+wwELvXToVVgB1GDaqqiCF0bzcDPvqbgDJewuGxLZNcIFyTusIHI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.hk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=jiTnO9czlnhs2QUAnDK238bAvKuU2m1/319QBmOpc/mi66pLxgKOdC+1WQ/+P0MzIyh+r5qPjZDLJ6vqSkIyjWdH9W6nicPG033x/txp6ghfSwTd9Fx+dOWAaycioNxxt+0ZyZsafT7fpi4GgmQagkXv102CyaQVrUss1vxQMkM=; X-YMail-OSG: mN_0nIkVM1nCMoe5NZv7ZqR63fq0zhzvIL0hHFNj9BRwOth ukLyDwrrrtvGy1iO.7B9nfyQfaBR191um8She_DrDX5OtEu6aQiIQ6yRdj5X 8rCIpTHO7dxh3xcL2rn.Vtr.RNUvGu20vkzeaqkSOZnO_Ct_SwFw59xtsVpx rmKIRHz1_meynnMWerLRJiNtM2tqyNkH8S1NFWeuJlHK8mlBnSdRgsm2yt.n XaWYQgT6hlLn0G__dXUtabKZa0LoYb1rdrBPwjkg5b9dwtPL_7HBRi1Rz8Td epvNlIbaEfOhWBEC13yjEXWS9dnwmMeR81OXbsRw4QNtDFpix2DK2QEA1mgD 7WgmyM8ny21rbz2dcYAXSOj8qnSDx9epc8Cf4LcR14Zg6_72FlOLU2UmS6rW 0aKjPp3OzXzwx8_982muFZ8kIOYoknCFG17o7x1LzR1rzOWWJuDQQhI3DJwp UfLyLDLGH7cIuoewWFkmI5F0OWOeGEAqRHna_hSzNETt8hLEAUvFYPN9KxqE pLs7U83XShL7aQUbtrFpa4PH4hA-- Received: from [61.15.240.116] by web193501.mail.sg3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:30:29 SGT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, SGVsbG8hCgpJIGFtIGN1cmlvdXMgYWJvdXQgdGhlIHNwZWNpYWwgKGNvdW50IGRvd24gbnVtYmVycykgYXQgc2h1dGRvd24gLyBzeW5jLgoKVGhvc2UgbnVibWVycyBpcyBsaWtlIDggOCA4IDggMiAxIDIgMSAwIDAgMCAwLgoKQWN0dWFsbHkgd2hhdCBkbyB0aG9zZSBudW1iZXJzIG1lYW4_CgpUaGFua3MgYW5kIHJlZ2FyZHMsClBhdHJpY2sgRHVuZwEwAQEBAQ-- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.156.576 Message-ID: <1378387829.14312.YahooMailNeo@web193501.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT) From: Patrick Dung Subject: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patrick Dung List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:32:33 -0000 Hello! I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Thanks and regards, Patrick Dung From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 5 13:50:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D33567 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 952182FEF for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-109-79.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.109.79]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9076727DD3; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:42:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id r85DgItS007841; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:42:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:42:18 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Patrick Dung Subject: Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync Message-Id: <20130905154218.c5e4b358.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1378387829.14312.YahooMailNeo@web193501.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> References: <1378387829.14312.YahooMailNeo@web193501.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:50:43 -0000 On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT), Patrick Dung wrote: > I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. > > Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. > > Actually what do those numbers mean? Those numbers show you how many buffers have to be synced until the system is ready to finally shut down and power off. This makes sure no pending hard disk operations will be "left and forgotten in memory". The important text displayed prior to the numbers is: Syncing disks, buffers remaining... You can find it here: /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c around line 330 (8-STABLE/i386 here). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...