Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
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

Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread darren chamberlain
* 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

Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Reppucci
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:-

Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread darren chamberlain
* 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

Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread Issac Goldstand
> [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

Re: mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-09 Thread Dan Wilga
>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

mod_perl & restart vs. graceful

2002-04-08 Thread John E. Leon Guerrero
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