Re: Question about shutdown

'Duane Wessels wrote:'
> squid@sminter.com.ar writes:
>
> >Hello:
> > When I kill squid I see a lot of lines in cache.log looking like
> >"xxxx lines written".
> > The thing is, when I halt the server, it shuts down inmediatedly.
> >Is this safe?
> > I am asking this because I want to prepare my UPS-started shutdown
> >script.
>
> Its "safe" but not optimal.
>
> If squid exits without writing the clean log, it will be a little
> bit slower the next time it starts up. Also that increases the chance

...

Well, on our 24 GB parent startup takes about 3 hours when the swaplog
is broken (i.e. squid was not shutdowned properly). So ...

Regards,
jens.

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