Re: Squid shutdown and startup

From: Duane Wessels <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:38:33 -0700

jim_horvath@hermanmiller.com writes:

>Here is a simple question: Say I just killed a squid process with ./squid -k
>shutdown. How safe is it to start a new instance of squid while the previous
>instance is still shutting down?

Not very safe, really. During both the shutdown and startup phases
Squid is writing or reading the "swap.state" files. If you corrupt
these files, Squid will be confused about what objects have been
cached.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Feb 17 1999 - 09:47:10 MST

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