RE: RE Startup on boot

From: Kiran Kumar <KKumar_at_rpsrx.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:01:51 -0400
Message-Id: <10527.108993@fatcity.com>

during the sync execution it tries to update the master file system file.By exectuing 3 times we are giving enough time to complete the SYNC process nothing else

-----Original Message-----
From: john.j.kanagaraj_at_shell.com.bn
[mailto:john.j.kanagaraj_at_shell.com.bn]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE Startup on boot

<snip>
# sync; sync; sync; poweroff

>(Note: I have no idea why they sync three times, but every sysadmin

> I've ever met does. I've checked, and a single time would be enough.
> Must be some weird tribal tradition.)

Guy,

The three 'sync's are akin to 'die, die, die' - shoot the alien thrice just to be sure! Seriously, I used to type in 'sync' at the keyboard when I am thinking about the next command to run - previous versions of UNIX used to flush buffers once in about 15 secs and 'sync' was a way to start it off. Disks were small and slow those days (20Mb to start with and 80Mb max) and UNIX systems were known to 'hang' often...

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

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