Hi! Bashiro escribió: > I want to restart Apache for the same reason why people want to restart any other program. > For freeing memory ? for dumping memory ? for dumping log file? > for releasing overload, for stability (in order to release hanging files) etc You don't need to restart Apache for freeing memory. You must tune in parameters in the config file: MaxRequestsPerChild, KeepAlive, KeepAliveMaxRequests, Min/MaxSpareServers, and the like. This way you can get Apache recycle its own childs freeing their memory (and avoiding swap ;). You can also think about the modules you need (php, perl , etc) and the fact that for serving an image you don't need a process with mod_php or mod_perl loaded in it. If this is the case you should try lighttpd + mod_proxy + apache. Hope this helps... :) Greetings! -- David Blanco --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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