> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote: > >> If the delay between starting and stopping is long enough and can be >> done with X + random-time offset. Squid will cope with some helpers >> simply stopping and resumes them. > > Yeah, the trouble is that you can't kill them all or Squid will die > complaining the helpers are dying too quickly. That would be why I added the 'random-time' offfset. It would need to be some random time per helper so they die spread over a period and squid has time to restart the earliest before the last go. > > Hm, I've always wanted to fix that pause during reconfigure and > rotate. Of course, reconfigure's "deny accepting connections" is > probably it closing and re-opening all its listen() sockets.. I've been thinking the same. Amos
