> I think I remember saying that so far I've only been testing after > graceful restarts (so what I would assume u call respawned children).
Again, this may be COMPLETELY unrelated, but I've had some serious issues with graceful restart and stop in apache 2.2 / 2.4 With graceful restarts, I get a number of errors: (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket). Also, with restarts, there is a (small) memory leak. Just messy. With graceful stop, if I have mod_ssl loaded, and I haven't set a graceful stop timeout, the original processes persist for ever. I only noticed when my machine was completely swapped out. Now what I do is 1) have a graceful stop timeout set 2) do a graceful stop 3) do a fresh start
