Trim Servers vs. AppServer restarts

When we have a temporary lost network connectivity, is the preference to restart the appservers or to do a trim server as to not impact the other companies on the server? When would you do a Trim Servers vs an Appserver restart?

What we do in those situations is to run restarts on Print, Process and Task servers and then individually kill appservers ( we only run 10 ) so the users do not have to restart their clients, since you can’t trim under the minimum.

Greg