Stephen Reppucci wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> See my suggested refinement below (I don't like to leave the server
> down any longer than needed...8^):
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, darren chamberlain wrote:
>
> > For exactly this reason, I always modify apachectl so that the restart
> > option looks li
* Stephen Reppucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-09 10:44]:
> Hi Darren,
>
> See my suggested refinement below (I don't like to leave the server
> down any longer than needed...8^):
Assuming that the last thing the parent does is remove the pidfile,
which is most likely the case. I didn't even t
Hi Darren,
See my suggested refinement below (I don't like to leave the server
down any longer than needed...8^):
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, darren chamberlain wrote:
> For exactly this reason, I always modify apachectl so that the restart
> option looks like:
>
> restart)
> timeout=${2:-
* Dan Wilga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-09 10:19]:
> It's most likely that the stop is actually taking longer than you
> expect to process. Apachectl just sends the "kill" and doesn't wait
> around for everything to exit. Depending on what each of the children
> is doing, this can take awhile. So
> [snip]
>
>> we could change the
>> script to do a stop then restart, but we've seen where this method (done
>> manually) was not 100% reliable and would sometimes require a couple of
>> "stops" before we could really restart apache (never understood why
>> this was
>> so.)
>
>
> It's most likel
>i've seen where the mod_perl guides recommend stopping and then restarting a
>mod_perl apache rather than doing a graceful restart. i only saw
>indications that memory does not get cleaned up "cleanly" if this is done.
Yes, this is the primary reason for doing a stop. In general, if I'm
just t
i'm interested in understanding the consequences of restart vs. graceful
better.
i've seen where the mod_perl guides recommend stopping and then restarting a
mod_perl apache rather than doing a graceful restart. i only saw
indications that memory does not get cleaned up "cleanly" if this is done