FESCo is evaluating a new proposal, hoping to greatly optimize the shutdown and restart time of the Fedora distribution. The current shutdown and restart time of the Fedora Linux distribution takes up to 2 minutes, but the new proposal hopes to reduce the time to 15 seconds.
Red Hat engineers and the Fedora Workstation Workstation Group believe that reducing the 2-minute shutdown window to 15 seconds is sufficient for the maximum time a service needs to be shut down. The shutdown time is still configurable for running services that may take more time to shut down properly and cleanly (such as on some servers).
Now Red Hat is advancing changes to Fedora, awaiting approval from the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo). In the proposal it is written:
"The main benefit of the change is to alleviate a very annoying and embarrassing bug: our users shouldn't just sit around waiting for their machines to shut down. This proposal encourages proper use of the built-in shutdown API."
