Bashiro wrote: > 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 Paying attention to all the other comments you were provided, also research the MaxRequestsPerChild which can be set quite high, such as 100000, and still do what you want to accomplish. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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