FWIW if I connect (boot with) my RAID enclosure to my eSATA card, the problem goes away at shutdown time. Any ideas?
On 3/14/10, Anders Langworthy <lagrang...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM, J.C. Roberts <list-...@designtools.org> > wrote: >> Now getting back to the link/problem posted by Frank which mentions >> firefox, as well as your complaint about the speed of firefox... Yep, >> the final stop on the reality tour is most likely the fact that firefox >> might be *STILL* trying to shut down because the disk write speed sucks >> so bad. This of course means, sync is waiting on it. If you use a >> bloated "Desktop" like kde or gnome, they may also be a contributing >> factor to your shutdown times and for the same reason. > > I also experience this issue intermittently on my two 4.6 > workstations, both with conventional HDDs. It either syncs instantly, > or it never completes at all. I only weigh in because this was never > a problem until 4.6 & Firefox 3.5, and after jcr's points above I am > highly inclined to blame the latter. Thank you for your suggestions. > I will configure FF to not use a disc cache and report back after > testing. > > Cheers, > Anders
