From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: After reloading httpd by 'kill -HUP' (which is successfull, all workers are killed), unused workers (mpm_worker) are not beeing killed. Free "slots" are being filed, logs are filled with: [Fri Nov 25 10:19:36 2005] [warn] (32)Broken pipe: write pipe_of_death Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.54-10.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid` 2. watch status-table and error_log Actual Results: Unused httpd workers not being killed, Expected Results: Unused httpd workers should be killed (their number should fall down to MaxSpareServers) Additional info:
I made a mistake in report. The problem is with mpm_prefork, not mpm_worker.