On 14/04/2017 20:25, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> Frank Miles  wrote:
>> I have an embedded application for the RPi-3. [...]
>> The question, of course, is how long does a shutdown take?
>
>  It depends - mostly on how fast the SD card is, how many dirty
> buffers need to be flushed and how long processes take to die. Best bet is
> to measure it under your worst case loads with the card you intend to use
> and add a healthy safety factor.

Also see if you can use Raspbian Lite and if that makes a significant
difference (you probably don't use X anyway?).

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