Take the 2-minute tour ×   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
interrupting the operations on the webservers hosted by apache ?
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accepted  Reload does a "Graceful Restart".  From the Apache
documentation Stopping and Restarting :   In theory no
operations will be interrupted, but there will be a wave of
server-processes restarting, with some (normally trivial enough)
overhead.  In effect there are more variables involved, such as
whether you are using prefork or worker, the number of children
that you have specified, and in the case of worker the max
threads per child.  share|improve this answer ok. So, more
precisely, if my customer is performing an order on a php based
e-shop. If i reload apache without restarting, is he going to
have issues ? thanks –  Patrick Sep 26 '10 at 7:59 Again in
theory, as long as the customer order is handled in one php
call, and as long as the reload is not critical for the correct
functioning of "old generation" servers