Subject: Re: Shutdown - not too fast?
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/01/2006 00:52:03
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:44:25AM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> Testing NetBSD with my new configuration I noticed very nice effect:
> shutting the system down with power button (using ACPI) takes not more,
> than 2 seconds; just "unmouting the filesystem" - and that's it.
>=20
> I'm not really sure: is that well-known from Linux-world, "laborious"
> killing all the daemons and shutting down all the services, not needed, in
> fact, at all?

If you're not running powerd(8), pushing the button does just that,
powering off the machine.  Almost like pulling out the power chord.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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