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authordgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1997-04-25 00:07:02 +0000
committerdgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1997-04-25 00:07:02 +0000
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Point things at the stopping/restarting document.
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@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ set to zero when a <code>HUP</code> is sent.
<p><b>Note:</b> prior to release 1.2b9 this code is quite unstable and
shouldn't be used at all.
+<p><b>Note:</b> Architectures that use an on disk <a
+href="mod/core.html#scoreboardfile">ScoreBoardFile</a> are not supported
+on graceful restarts. See the ScoreBoardFile documentation for a method
+to determine if your architecture uses a file.
+
<p>The <code>USR1</code> signal causes the parent process to <i>advise</i>
the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately
if they're not serving anything). The parent re-reads its configuration
@@ -64,11 +69,6 @@ files and re-opens its log files. As each child dies off the parent
replaces it with a child from the new <i>generation</i> of the
configuration, which begins serving new requests immediately.
-<p>Architectures that use an on disk <a
-href="mod/core.html#scoreboardfile">ScoreBoardFile</a> are not supported
-on graceful restarts. See the ScoreBoardFile documentation for a method
-to determine if your architecture uses it.
-
<p>This code is designed to always respect the
<a href="mod/core.html#maxclients">MaxClients</a>,
<a href="mod/core.html#minspareservers">MinSpareServers</a>,
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ certain architectures.
<p>Architectures that use an on disk <a
href="mod/core.html#scoreboardfile">ScoreBoardFile</a> have the potential
-to corrupt their scoreboards whenever a signal is received. It is
+to corrupt their scoreboards whenever a signal is received (by the
+parent or children). It is
possible for the server to forget about some children when this happens.
See the ScoreBoardFile documentation for a method to determine if your
architecture uses it.