By wiser, I mean: will squid just picked up where it left off with the cache as if nothing happened? Or will items in the cache become alien to squid? Not a big deal either way, I'll just try it and if I have to wipe the caches, so be it. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.elsen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:56 AM To: Gregori Parker Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: rebuilding question : > > I'm preparing to rebuild squid on a few servers within a production > cluster to apply the epoll patch and fix a FD issue. Once everything is > rebuilt (same configuration options), do I have to run "squid -z" > initially? Or, can squid reuse the existing cache directories after > being rebuilt? > You don't have to run 'squid -z'; mind you the epoll patch, is as I believe, not ready for production use. There has been a thread about this recently, check the archives. > I guess my question is, if the config files don't change and the cache > is still the same, will squid be the wiser? > Define wiser ? M.