As already mentioned some time ago, when shutting down or even restarting the system, the process has severe hickups when it comes to closing /var and swap. As far as I understood, noone in Debian is interested in solving this very annoying behaviour "it's Godgiven amen".
Now my question: I log out of the x-session and then give the command
"shutdown -h (or) r now". (Sorry, codetags seem not to be working in my Firefox) That works flawlessly as regards the speed of closing the whole session. BUT are with this all running processes and whatsoever closed *properly*? Or will I discover one day or the other, that something was killed brutally and not working anymore?
Kind regards.

where is this coming from?

http://serverfault.com/questions/327...hutdown#327761

The principle of the shutdown-command was known by me. BUT I was (and still am) not sure about the interaction with systemd. Why, if shutdown is so diligent and graceful, the systemd-programmers don't use it instead of their darned own routine? Knowing what an annoyance they cause!