The following reply was made to PR pkg/33589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33589 (apache ignores 'reload' from rc.d script as well as 'graceful' from apachectl(8))
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:05:06 +0100

 On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:02:01AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
 > >1.) Because it is a graceful reload it won't happen before the HTTP daemon
 > >    has handled all existing connection. You can verify this by using
 > >    "apachectl graceful" and wait a few minutes.
 > 
 > thanks for digging into this, matthias.
 
 You are welcome. I'm glad that we figured this out.
 
 > although my machine also is (almost) idle, it took six minutes. i never 
 > ran into this before (and i do a lot of web serving, for many years now, 
 > on different OSs). weird.
 
 It might be related to HTTP client keeping a connection open for a long time.
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/