MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

-----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust Sent: 26 April 2001 14:40 To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: MicroVAX 3100 booting question... "Even with today's journaling file systems, I'm puzzled by the shutdown message on my WinNT machine. It says something like "Writing unsaved data to disk". Why would some file system data remain in memory, even after minutes or hours of relative inactivity on the system? Even a few seconds would be an eternity for a CPU. Why would important data be deferred?" Isn't most of this time spent trying to get various system services to stop? I know that a machine with Exchange Server on will take ages. Notice there is *very* little disk activity during this period. Kevin