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📖 Carolopedia › RestartGuide page
📖What it means
Stopping a running process and starting it again so it picks up changed code. Never with a hard kill — that corrupts databases mid-write; always a polite stop, then a wait, then a start.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Deploy
A deploy changes what is on disk; a restart is what makes the running process use it.
Not: Reclaim
A restart bounces a process you own; reclaiming frees a port held by one you do not.
🗣️Also called
bouncereloadrelaunch