Shut down times

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/3/29 Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com>
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> > Before everyone goes off on me, I'll explain.
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> I didn't see any indication that anyone was going off on you Bill.
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> Often people ask questions but don't provide much information to go on and
> it's necessary to ask questions to try and figure out what the poster is
> actually asking. Not saying that this is necessarily true of you but often
> people ask for a specific solution but there is a simpler solution once
> it's determined exactly what problem they are trying to correct.
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> I know I had some questions in my mind as I read your post.
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> Now that you have explained a little more, I still do.
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> Are you saying that all of the reclaimed boxes you work with take 60
> seconds to shutdown? ...or is there some significant variation in time?
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> I don't understand the people's objection to clicking more than once, I
> don't know from where they get their experience, you can't shut a Windows
> box down without clicking more than once. That is, unless you use the
> power switch and is isn't recommend there any more than it is here.
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> As to time, well, in order for a system to do an orderly shutdown,
> applications have to close, files have to be closed, partitions have to be
> unmounted. If you think about it, the slower the system processor and, to
> an extent, the less RAM, the slower the system is able to go through the
> steps.
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> Derek mentioned one aspect. In order to help us to help you it might be a
> good idea for you to furnish us some more data to work with. My question
> about if it is for all the boxes might be relevant. If you have a
> particular box that you are working on now, give us some more details of
> processor speed, RAM and, as Johnny mentioned, what is running when you
> try to shut it down? (Even though Johnny posted with HTML and that is to
> be avoided according to Ubuntu Mailing List Etiquette.)

I am sorry, I didn't know that. I just write my email from the GMail
website without doing anything special.

Now I clicked "unformatted text". Is this better?

The "unformatted text" link in GMail now changed to "RTF-format", so
it seems like it isn't html after all, not according to GMail
anyway...

But again, I'm sorry, I didn't know that there was a non html policy
on this list. I guess there is something that I should jave read but
didn't closely enough.

J.R.
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