[squid-users] service squid restart not good? must use service squid stop and start?

Dear all,

   I read from somewhere that says do not use "service squid restart",
rather do the following:
#service squid stop
long wait 30s to 1 minute
#service squid start
Very long wait - half and hour or so if you have about a million urls in
the squidguard block lists.

It says the reason is " Do not do 'service squid restart'. Doing so will
result in multiple copies of squidguard running, the server will slow to
a crawl and the paint on the wall will crack and peel off before the
system is working again"

Does it mean my squid will one day not running if I continuosly use
restart squid. I didn't know restart is bad and it has became my habit
to use restart rather than service start and stop because it is much
faster.
Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 17:28:33 MST