F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff

[Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I]

On 07/25/2012 12:10 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net 
> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Am 24.07.2012 19 <tel:24.07.2012%2019>:39, schrieb Richard Vickery:
>     > Why do you need to reboot? What are you doing at power-off that
>     you need to hang around and wait for it? If a
>     > portable computer, just close it, pack it away before the lights
>     go out, and walk away? and is a minute and 38
>     > seconds really SO important? If this minuscule amount time is so
>     important, you could retire and get more of your
>     > minute and a half.
>
>     strange argumentation
>
>     it does not matter WHY someone reboots a machine
>     nor is not reboot a solution for any problem
>
>     rebooting a remote-machine after updates which is not
>     important enough to set up remote KVM as example is
>     not funny if you have to wait a long time without feedback
>
>
> My point here is taken out of out of its context: it was not rebooting 
> I was concerned about, but that the world is not going to end in a 
> minute and a half. Included in my concern were many things: one was to 
> get someone with more knowledge than I to help this gentleman - I have 
> stated before that I am a political scientist, not a real one (sorry 
> if I offend any other political scientists here, that is not my 
> purpose); another concern is that when I used MS stuff, I was 
> concerned and fearful about a longer wait periods because of their 
> crashing occurrences, and in Linux waiting is no big deal because 
> Linux does what it is supposed to do versus MS Windows which teaches 
> an individual to freak out when the computer does something like that 
> in question; another concern is that I am, and cannot un-become 
> over-night, nor would I want to, a qigong master who doesn't worry 
> about time - and this is why mine is, as Harald says, a "strange 
> argument"; everything the qigong practitioner is, is strange to those 
> who don't practice.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
I too would be concerned with a long shut-down time.....only because, as 
stated before when using Windows the longer an application or computer 
takes to shut down could mean all KINDS of things are taking place that 
are unknown to the user. From viruses and trojan files being 
installed......to the hard drive being deleted a byte at a time. If 
there's one thing I've learned to do with Linux it's that every two 
weeks I run BleachBit and this seems to keep my system pretty fast. 
Shutdowns and startups are quick, and free of glitches. I'm running 
Fedora 16 on a 32 bit 3GM memory laptop and for what I need it to 
do....it's pretty fast. I'm in the process of upgrading my hardware to 
64-bit, and I'm wondering just how much more of an increase in speed 
that will give my system, when I go to Fedora 17.....and this is in 
addition to making sure my Firewall is on and working!


EGO II
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