Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
Date	2025-04-23 19:20 +0000
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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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Shutdown - 25 Years Later Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-16 14:32 +0000
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-18 04:34 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 05:56 +0000
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-18 06:38 +0000
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:15 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-18 08:53 +0100
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:16 +0000
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-04-19 14:19 +0000
          Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2025-04-19 21:10 +0000
            Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 22:22 +0000
            Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 08:13 +0100
              Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 10:31 +0100
              Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-20 12:28 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 20:44 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-04-21 08:24 +1000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-04-21 08:28 +1000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-21 00:29 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-22 10:35 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 10:03 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-22 11:27 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-22 10:37 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 12:13 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-22 12:38 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 14:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-23 12:55 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:49 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-23 19:20 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-24 00:24 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-25 17:50 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:15 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:45 -0700
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-28 20:18 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 12:15 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 18:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 21:18 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 03:02 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 18:20 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:45 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:46 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-23 06:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:46 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:43 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-23 13:35 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-24 00:23 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:20 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:14 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-26 10:32 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-26 17:08 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 22:56 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 22:52 +0000
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-18 10:15 +0100
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:06 +0000
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-18 10:41 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:17 -0700
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-18 15:29 +0200
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-18 19:02 +0000

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