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lagagnon

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Registered: 2009-12-10

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Any way to optimize shutdown time in the /etc/rc.shutdown script ?

Overall I am really impressed with the boot and shutdown speed of arch. However, on shutdown I noticed a 5 second delay at: "Sending SIGTERM to processes". On looking at /etc/rc.shutdown I see this:

# Terminate all processes
stat_busy "Sending SIGTERM To Processes"
/sbin/killall5 -15 &> /dev/null
/bin/sleep 5
stat_done

There is the 5 second delay. I realize what that scripting is doing and there must be some built in delay to unsure processes are terminated, but is 5 seconds really necessary or is there any way to optimize that part of the script?

Last edited by lagagnon (2010-01-01 18:43:05)

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nblock

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-06

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Re: Any way to optimize shutdown time in the /etc/rc.shutdown script ?

hmm, i guess 5 seconds is ok. closing rtorrent for example takes a few seconds on my host.