Re: Question about shutdown

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:32:35 -0600

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
of cache corruption, but hopefully we handle all the cases correctly
so the end user doesn't get the wrong objects.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 10:25:08 MDT

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