The following reply was made to PR mod_status/2138; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tom Mornini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mod_status/2138: mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:17:16 -0700 (PDT) On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote: > I suppose yes this could be confusing. But there's a reason for it -- it > has to do with graceful restarts. Suppose you were to change your > MaxClients and then do a graceful restart. If you lower it you could > possibly have children (gracefully exiting) numbered higher than the > current MaxClients... so we'd need to keep some sort of history for > MaxClients in order to figure out how much of the table to show. Why not just show the current status correctly, and graceful shutdowns separately? It seems very unfortunate to display it strangely 99% of the time. How often would the scenario above happen in reality? -- Tom Mornini -- InfoMania Printing and Prepress
