Hi, > I suppose you can't get to the server-status page when this is happening? Yes, that is correct...no response is returned when I make this request. > http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html#backtrace > Thank you for the pointer. I'll script up something to ptrace the apache processes when they get 'stuck'. -- bright blessings, 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