[Outages-discussion] Azure Postmortem

[Mark Milhollan]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Matt Hoppes wrote:

> How long does it take to shutdown a server?  It shouldn't take more than a
> minute or two I wouldn't think - and it seems it would be better to just power
> off than risk hardware damage if the temperature got too extreme.
>
> I don't understand that part.

It can easily take a while to flush large and perhaps mostly dirty 
caches.


/mark