20050131: "sync" in ldmadmin stop

Harry,

>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:37:02 -0800
>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Washington
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20050128: "sync" in ldmadmin stop

The above message contained the following:

> I tried taking out the sync - it makes "ldmadmin stop" run much faster.

I just did an "ldmadmin stop" on this Linux system

    $ uname -a
    Linux uni4.unidata.ucar.edu 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 13 16:58:29 
EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The sync(1) took about one or two seconds.

What's your uname(1)?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson