When do graceful restart using the following command, active connections are terminated everytime. /usr/sbin/httpd -k graceful OS version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Server built: Oct 3 2017 09:37:04 The same issue occurred when I compile and install Apache/2.4.6 in rhel7.4. Server version: Apache/2.4.6 (Unix) Server built: Jan 18 2018 09:57:38 Following information are shown in the error_log when do graceful restart. [Thu Jan 18 10:46:15.019699 2018] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4591] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart [Thu Jan 18 10:46:15.023504 2018] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4591] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jan 18 10:46:15.023524 2018] [core:notice] [pid 4591] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd'
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