Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: valtech@caribnet.net (Sean Batson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Message-ID: <199606301839.OAA08820@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960630113745.283A-100000@PPP25.sunbeach.net> from Sean Batson at "Jun 30, 96 11:38:54 am"
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Sean Batson wrote... > what is the meaning of those numbers you see when > shutting down FreeBSD. > > Sean. > I imagine you mean the descending sequence which is about the last thing you see before the reboot. (Sorry, I can't remember what it says, this OS is so stable I hardly ever have to do it :-). What's happening is that the disk write cache (disk blocks which have been changed, but are held in memory for performance reasons) is being written onto the hard disk, before marking the disk as clean. The numbers are the blocks remaining to be written. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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