graceful stop?

[Jonathan Swartz]

I'm wondering if anyone uses Apache's graceful stop feature (http:// 
httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html#gracefulstop) with mod_perl  
servers.

The mod_perl guide section on starting and stopping (http:// 
perl.apache.org/docs/general/control/ 
control.html#Safe_Code_Updates_on_a_Live_Production_Server)  
recommends using regular old stop. Doesn't this terminate any current  
user requests, with ugly results on the client? Wouldn't it make more  
sense to issue a graceful stop signal, setting  
GracefulShutdownTimeout to a low number (like 1) and then sleeping  
for at least that number of seconds? This would give current requests  
some time to finish, while avoiding the problems of running multiple  
identically configured instances of httpd at the same time.

Thanks
Jon