Shut down times

[Thorny]

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I didn't see any indication that anyone was going off on you Bill.

Often people ask questions but don't provide much information to go on and
it's necessary to ask questions to try and figure out what the poster is
actually asking. Not saying that this is necessarily true of you but often
people ask for a specific solution but there is a simpler solution once
it's determined exactly what problem they are trying to correct.

I know I had some questions in my mind as I read your post. 

Now that you have explained a little more, I still do.

Are you saying that all of the reclaimed boxes you work with take 60
seconds to shutdown? ...or is there some significant variation in time?

I don't understand the people's objection to clicking more than once, I
don't know from where they get their experience, you can't shut a Windows
box down without clicking more than once. That is, unless you use the
power switch and is isn't recommend there any more than it is here.

As to time, well, in order for a system to do an orderly shutdown,
applications have to close, files have to be closed, partitions have to be
unmounted. If you think about it, the slower the system processor and, to
an extent, the less RAM, the slower the system is able to go through the
steps.

Derek mentioned one aspect. In order to help us to help you it might be a
good idea for you to furnish us some more data to work with. My question
about if it is for all the boxes might be relevant. If you have a
particular box that you are working on now, give us some more details of
processor speed, RAM and, as Johnny mentioned, what is running when you
try to shut it down? (Even though Johnny posted with HTML and that is to
be avoided according to Ubuntu Mailing List Etiquette.)