MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Kevin Murrell <kevin_at_xpuppy.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu Apr 26 11:10:32 2001

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust
Sent: 26 April 2001 14:40
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: MicroVAX 3100 booting question...


"Even with today's journaling file systems, I'm puzzled by the
shutdown message on my WinNT machine. It says something like
"Writing unsaved data to disk". Why would some file system
data remain in memory, even after minutes or hours of relative
inactivity on the system? Even a few seconds would be an
eternity for a CPU. Why would important data be deferred?"

Isn't most of this time spent trying to get various system services to stop?
I know that a machine with Exchange Server on will take ages.

Notice there is *very* little disk activity during this period.

Kevin
Received on Thu Apr 26 2001 - 11:10:32 BST