Re: REISUB vs. RSEIUB
Originally Posted by
stoogiebuncho
I learned the "Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring" method. Namely, hold down Alt and SysRq and then press the following patter of letters, leaving a second or two in between: RSEIUB
The pattern I often see on these forums is REISUB.
Which is the best? Does it matter?
The R is the acryonym is to switch the input modes. It hasn't been needed in most of 10 years. We're already in that input mode.
S is for sync, that is flush the cache buffers to disk. It makes no sense to do this right before E.
E is to nicely kill all processes. (kill $pid). I is to forcibly kill all processes (kill -9 $pid)
E and I are going to cause a lot of activity on the disk as processes close and do final writes and everything. As you can see, sync before E and I is pointless.
U is for forcibly unmount. Unmount implies a sync operation. So now that S is really pointless. In fact, there's no difference between SU and U, so anyone that tells you "Do REISUB, not RSEIUB" is still wrong. U and SU are the same.
B means to immediately reboot the system.
So what do you need to type in? AltGr + Sysreq + EIUB. That's it. Nothing more. So naturally I type and teach RSEISUB. Why? "Raising Skinny Elephants Is So Utterly Boring" is something I find really easy to remember, and who cares if you're doing extra syncs or switching to an input mode you're already in?
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