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Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

Sujet : Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc
Date : 23. Apr 2025, 20:20:05

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote at 11:13 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 22/04/2025 10:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-04-22 11:03, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/04/2025 09:35, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-04-21 02:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 08:24:22 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>
It sounds like they're talking about the cache in the drive itself,
making sure data is physically written out before power-off.
>
Unfortunately, you could be right.
>
I say “unfortunately“, because I think it’s a dumb idea for drives
to have
their own cache.
>
Not at all. There is a huge speed improvement.
>
The key is to have a large enough capacitor in the drive to flush all
those caches on power off.

Or power off by command, not pulling the cable.

The reason you pull the cable is
>
(i) the electricity company did it for you
(ii) the power off button/command didn't work.
(iii) There was no swap left and you couldn't even log in to issue the
shutdown command

I thought there's an OOM killer built in to prevent running out of ram?
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Date	Sujet	#	Auteur
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	49	Eli the Bearded
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	3	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	2	Eli the Bearded
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	45	Andy Burns
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	42	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
19 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	41	Jim Jackson
19 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	39	Richard Kettlewell
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	The Natural Philosopher
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	37	Pancho
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Richard Kettlewell
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	35	Computer Nerd Kev
20 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Computer Nerd Kev
21 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	33	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	32	Carlos E.R.
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	22	The Natural Philosopher
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	17	Carlos E.R.
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Pancho
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	15	The Natural Philosopher
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	4	Pancho
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	2	The Natural Philosopher
23 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Pancho
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
23 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	10	candycanearter07
24 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	9	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
25 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	8	candycanearter07
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	7	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
28 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	6	John Ames
28 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	4	Richard Kettlewell
29 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	3	The Natural Philosopher
29 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	2	Richard Kettlewell
29 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	The Natural Philosopher
29 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	3	Richard Kettlewell
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
23 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	The Natural Philosopher
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
22 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	9	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
23 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	8	Carlos E.R.
24 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	7	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
25 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	6	Carlos E.R.
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	4	The Natural Philosopher
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	2	Richard Kettlewell
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
26 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
18 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	2	The Natural Philosopher
19 Apr 25	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later	1	Lawrence D'Oliveiro