I've also wondered about this, since tuning caches in production can be pretty dangerous. Re: "maybe some more." who would know what more, exactly ? or does no one know ? It would be great if this found its way into the documentation. -john ----- Original Message ---- From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Aaron Chu <aaron@xxxxxxx> Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:33:59 AM Subject: Re: when is a restart necessary instead of a reconfigure tis 2006-05-23 klockan 20:56 -0700 skrev Aaron Chu: > Hi, > > I've been googling this, but haven't found a definitive answer - for > what configuration (squid.conf) changes do we need to shutdown and > startup squid? Changes in cache_dir changing pid_filename Removal of an authentication scheme (auth_param) maybe some more.. Regards Henrik