On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:17 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Richi Plana (myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Are there use-cases where feedback on service shutdown would be desired? > > It seems that if there were, a couple of lines of text would be > > minimalist. > > > > If sourcing shells and scripts has become a sticky point, then perhaps > > that functionality should be included in init. Which sort of brings up > > the topic of evaluating current init replacements (or, better yet, an > > init, changerunlevel, shutdown system). > > I'd need to benchmark some more, but I suspect the delay is because of > a linear sequence of: > > - kill -TERM $pid > - wait to see if it's dead > - kill -KILL $pid > > for each service, as opposed to a global > > - kill -TERM $everything > - wait a second > - kill -KILL $everything > > Bill > Baaah... Some services need -time- to shut down. (E.g. save data to the disk) Killing everything simultaneously may/will trigger an IO race; some services just might not be able to save everything before they get -KILL'ed. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
