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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Syncing 4 3 3 ... what are these numbers? Date: 20 Dec 1995 21:22:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4b9uqf$bls@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b3doo$30pg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 schweikh@zeiss.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes: > Hello *, > > Just out of curiosity, when I halt the system, I see the message > > syncing 4 3 3 ... done > What information is in these numbers? The unflushed buffers. > Can there be more or less than 3 numbers? It can be much more. You're kinda at a loss when you see syncing 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 giving up. (This usually indicates that the disk driver has got stuck due to an error.) Of course, if the system had been idle long enough before the actual `halt' happened, there might be no unflushed buffers at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)