There seems to be some weird regressions in this. A mis-configuration like:
Listen 127.0.0.1:8025 Listen [::1]:8025 Listen 127.0.0.1:8025 Listen [::1]:8025 ListenCoresBucketsRatio 8 ... no longer triggers a startup failure - is that expected? I guess it should be documented if so. Such a config then leaks fds across reloads: $ ss -ntlp | grep :8025 | wc -l 8 $ ./bin/apachectl graceful $ ss -ntlp | grep :8025 | wc -l 10 $ ./bin/apachectl graceful $ ss -ntlp | grep :8025 | wc -l 12 Maybe somebody familiar with the code can understand why. These issues are a regression in 2.4.x without ListenCoresBucketsRatio set as well, which the below seems to fix (proposed for backport): http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1777923 Regards, Joe