> Check this documentation out, default is 300 seconds. > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#timeout Thanks for the reply, but that's not it I'm afraid. That timeout value doesn't make any difference in this case. The time it takes before it halts varies from a minute or so to 15 minutes or more. Plus it actually terminates the child process entirely. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx