Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync
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, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync
Thanks for the answer. That is cool and unique. From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Patrick Dung patrick_...@yahoo.com.hk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync 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, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
