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

Im not sure about which distro of linux ya using and
squid platform ya using but whenever you stop the
squid you may need to run this command to check
whether squid still running or not :-

watch 'ps -Af | grep squid'

If the squid no longer running on the background, it
should be safe to restart the squid.

The reasons are all the same. If you try to run a
multiple copies of apache server behind or ssh
server/ftp server on your linux box, it will certainly
slow down the performance. This case is no differs
from others as well.

Regards.

--- Yong Bong Fong <bfyong@shinyang.com.my> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

                
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Received on Thu Jan 20 2005 - 01:39:33 MST