> apache2: 2.4.56-1~deb11u2, prefork MPM, mod_perl I think it's a large window on prefork where this can happen. If any process is busy processing a request, it cannot close its copy of the listening socket. The OS will continue to complete TCP connections and acknowledge (some) data with nobody calling accept(). When the last of the listening sockets is finally closed, the TCP connections that arrived in this timeframe will be abruptly closed. Both worker and event MPMs have a dedicated listener thread per child process, so it will close those copies of the listening sockets much more quickly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx