> dunno if this is related, but I notice that on my machine, while shutting
> down, lots of daemons take a long time to die. i.e. when the daemon stop
> is run, they get a SIGTERM, but they take too long to die, and the script
> has to SIGKILL them. It isn't too slow: a lot of them die in the 3 sec
> interval before the KILL, but on 2.1.132, they used to die in the 0.1 sec
> that the script waited after sending the SIGTERM. Net result is that it takes
> a huge amount of time to shutdown.
>
> Sys is redhat 5.2 with 2.2.0pre9.
I've been seeing this on all but my very fastest SMP PPro box since day
one with the 2.1.x kernels. I routinely patch the init script to allow >
0.1 sec for the initial kill. The default is too short, IMHO.
Steve
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