shutdown of dc takes forever

[SirLee]

When I try to shutdown one of my domain-controllers it closes all tasks, startbar and desktop closes but then hangs at the windows background with the mouse being still active and does not shutdown.

Ive waited for around 20 minutes - nothing.

How long does it usually take to power off a domaincontroller?

What problems could occur if I switch them off at this stage?

 

[mcconmw]

It depends on what services, etc are running on the machine. I have had a machine that would legitimately take 30 minutes to shutdown. Most only take a couple of minutes. If it is taking that long and there are no extra services installed then you probably have a driver issue somewhere. Sound cards are notorious. When windows shuts down it does a number of post system checks and ensures all data is out of the cache and written to the hard drive. I doubt you would create a problem by shutting it off, but I would not recommend it especially on a regular basis.

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

try

net stop spooler

and then shutdown...

 

[awms]

i had this problem

added another 1.5Gb ram, and hey presto, the system shuts down in under 15 seconds, where it used to take 15 minutes!

if you can't get anywhere with the other stuff, try putting more ram in - it can't hurt it! :->

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

If the swap file is badly fragmented you may have this problem. There are two ways of avoiding this, 3rd party defragger or create a swap file on a separate partition, that way it never gets fragged - a much better option.

Adding RAM may cause issues if you don't adjust the swap file size accordingly.