Hello Joshua, > Without reading the entire message, the problem in the subject line is > something I remember being fixed at some point. Try upgrading to a > modern version of apache. many thanks for this hint. As 1.3.27 is the last version of 1.x available for Solaris 8 via sunfreeware I tried a 2.0 version from sunfreeware and indeed there is an extra waitpid() call after sending SIGTERM, so the 3s delays did not occur with this version. Jochen --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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