Apache HTTPD reload [closed]

Question

Does anyone know if while Apache HTTPD is doing a reload (which, let's say, takes five seconds) can it still serve requests during that time?

Answer 1

First of all, you say reload, but assuming you mean 'reload' OR 'restart':

   /my/path/to/httpd restart 

• Causes the current httpd process to exit, which means for a time the server appears to be down, as in not serving any requests.

Reload on the other side:

    /my/path/to/httpd reload 

• Does not cause the current server to exit, which means connections are never refused and thus the server never looks down (but is rather slow for a little while)
• Will cause all long running httpd daemon requests to exit