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On today’s Fedora systems, a reboot cycle—for a kernel update,
say—is normally a fairly quick affair, but that is not always true. The
system will
wait for services to shut down cleanly and will wait for up to two minutes
before killing a service and moving on. A recent proposal to change the
default timeout to 15 seconds, while still allowing some services to
require more time, ran into more opposition than was perhaps anticipated.
Not everyone was comfortable shortening the timeout period, though the
decision has now been made to reduce it, but not as far as was proposed.