From 80f2c485bad476a43be9f727ff8f3563d42b9962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "mergify[bot]" <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:32:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend --no-port-check to improve validator restart time (#13667) (cherry picked from commit 31d2f445a2e31511356855365047567f8a1a7d04) Co-authored-by: Michael Vines --- 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 13ccf7504b..b1c122dd22 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.