I am seeing this behavior too. If I do a graceful-stop followed by a start on a system that I know is getting no traffic, the old parent process sometimes hangs around for a bit (I think for GracefulShutdownTimeout secs).
On a related note - If I do a graceful-stop followed by a start on a heavily loaded system, the start sometimes doesn't successfully complete and returns a "httpd (pid xxx) already running". Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on why this happens? Thanks, Paul >I stopped load and waited for thrice as long as our application timeout. > >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Eric Covener<cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mohit Anchlia<mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think I knew that. Question is even though there were no outstanding >> requests the httpd servers stayed there until I finally killed them > > How did you ensure that there were no outstanding requests? > > -- > Eric Covener > cove...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org