How to restart polkitd

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Issue

My polkit is not latest version so it consumed a lot of memory.

I know I can fix this issue by updating polkit but I'd like to release memory by restarting polkitd before updating the package.

How can I restart polkitd ?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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