This may be heresy, but I am irritated by the amount of time
linux spends shutting down. I am running SuSE 6.1, and I generally boot
up, work, and close off, so it may happen a number of times a day.
Linux (Heresy again) sits there thinking it is the central hub of a
multitasking universe; these delusions of grandeur are all very well,
but I wonder what I could trim out of a closedown sequence like the
following
Goung down for reboot NOW (waits 5 seconds)
Sending all processes the TERM signal
Sending all processes the KILL signal
Shuitting Down (each daemon is individually closed off, most of which
are quite idle anyhow)
Sending all processes the TERM signal again
Sending all processes the KILL signal again
Unmounts all drives
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
