> stop accepting connections, tell all your clients to reconnect This "drain" pattern is great for maintenance, upgrades, etc too. The only caveat is that the

> stop accepting connections, tell all your clients to reconnect This "drain" pattern is great for maintenance, upgrades, etc too. The only caveat is that the clients need to be given time to migrate. How long that is depends on how well the clients behave. A hot restart may be much faster.