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

From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
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 10:06:32 +0200

 >> 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.
 
 hm, should be possible to check (netstat, closing appropriate port on 
 firewall in testing period...). but not today ;)