Re: pkg/33589 (apache ignores 'reload' from rc.d script as well as 'graceful' from apachectl(8))

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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/