>The tradeoff on this is that while the old threads/processes are busy >shutting down, and your new threads/processes are busy starting up, >you're now using twice as much RAM and other resources as you were >before. This is likely to make the problem worse, not better. :(
Are you sure it will take so much resources ? Apache processes are starting/ending all the time and i can't see any problems with this. Isn't there any module, which implements this behavior so we can test it ? 10 seconds without accepting connections is just too much :( Anyway, why processes needs to be shutdown on reload at all ? Cannot they just re-read the configuration file/s ? Thnx for explanation. azur
