What is the difference between pm2 restart and pm2 reload
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I have a nodejs app running on server.
When should I use pm2 restart,and when should pm2 reload be used?
Referred to the pm2 documention here,but couldn't figure out the difference in use case of the two.
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Solution 1 - node.js
The difference is documented here:
> As opposed to restart
, which kills and restarts the process, reload
achieves a 0-second-downtime reload.
The latter means (found here):
> With reload, pm2
restarts all processes one by one, always keeping at least one process running.
It also states that:
> If the reload system hasn’t managed to reload your application, a timeout will fallback to a classic restart.