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Subject: Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
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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?
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