Oliver Fromme wrote:

Definitely not.  When I compare Windows XP and FreeBSD on
the same hardware (notebook with ATA disk), then Windows'
shutdown process is a lot faster than FreeBSD's.  In fact,
when I shut it down under XP for the first time, the power
was off so quickly that I thought someting must have gone
wrong.  But everything was OK and normal.

Yes XP's shutdown time is quicker on a fresh install, but give it a few weeks or months (depending on how you use XP) and you will notice that the shutdown time increases. Right now my XP pro takes about 20 or more seconds to shutdown. I am sure this is due to the MFT under a NTFS installation, FreeBSD does not appear to have this problem over extended use, and there is no way of stopping the MTF growth problem (as far as I know)

It is already irritating that FreeBSD sits there doing
nothing for ~ 5 seconds before turning power off.  Windows
doesn't do that.  (Yes I know, there's a sysctl for that,
but I suspect that it's not save to modify it in FreeBSD.)

Best regards
  Oliver



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