>>> In most cases you'll find that 'shutdown -h now'
>>> takes only a few seconds.
>>>
>>
>> you must have nice hardware :)
>>
>
> He must have. I have a AMD 2500+ CPU with 1Gb of ram. It's not the
> slowest but not the fastest either.

Pair of dual-PIII VA Linux machines, one compute
server with twin dual-core opterons. Main thing
that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's
for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than
[S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days.

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