On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Andrew Ho wrote: > I don't see how this would work--a graceful stop followed by a start would > mean clients would drop in between the window when you signal the graceful > stop (and Apache therefore stops accepting new requests) and when the new > instance starts.
The idea behind a graceful restart is that it won't destroy current requests, it already adds a delay to serving new requets during the restart - and frequently drops them (depending on your queue size). With a graceful stop, and then a start, the outage can be pretty minimal. Ideally you would have the process issuing the signal to be the new instance of httpd, so it wait until it's exactly ready to listen() before calling kill(). I'd wager you'd drop less new connections this way than the current one, and in any case I think the benifits of upgradability are much more worth it. -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
