From 31d2f445a2e31511356855365047567f8a1a7d04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Vines <mvines@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:13:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend --no-port-check to improve validator restart time

---
 docs/src/running-validator/validator-start.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/src/running-validator/validator-start.md b/docs/src/running-validator/validator-start.md
index a8a9c1b65f..0e58467e52 100644
--- a/docs/src/running-validator/validator-start.md
+++ b/docs/src/running-validator/validator-start.md
@@ -361,3 +361,8 @@ EOF
 sudo cp logrotate.sol /etc/logrotate.d/sol
 systemctl restart logrotate.service
 ```
+
+### Disable port checks to speed up restarts
+Once your validator is operating normally, you can reduce the time it takes to
+restart your validator by adding the `--no-port-check` flag to your
+`solana-validator` command-line.