I suppose it's like asking "how long is a piece of string", but, here's the
question:

I'm writing a Solaris startup/shutdown script that will do a halt and then
wait in a loop for the dsmserv process to go away.  This obviously needs a
timeout in case the halt doesn't work.  Currently, I only have one client
registered and the database is tiny, and the halt takes about 5 seconds to
complete.

With a large database, will the halt take longer?  If there are sessions
active, will it take longer?  How long should one reasonably wait for the
server to finish halting?  Would 60 seconds be enough?

Any real-life examples would be greatly appreciated.

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Lesley Walker
Lesley Walker
Distributed Systems Services, EDS New Zealand
Lesley.Walker AT nz.eds DOT com
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with
18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons,
computers in the future by the year 2000, may have
only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons"
    Popular Mechanics, March 1949