The following reply was made to PR pkg/33589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33589 (apache ignores 'reload' from rc.d script as well as
 'graceful' from apachectl(8))
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:02:01 +0200

 > 1.) Because it is a graceful reload it won't happen before the HTTP daemon
 >     has handled all existing connection. You can verify this by using
 >     "apachectl graceful" and wait a few minutes.
 
 thanks for digging into this, matthias.
 
 although my machine also is (almost) idle, it took six minutes. i never 
 ran into this before (and i do a lot of web serving, for many years now, 
 on different OSs). weird.
 
 thanks,
 
 timo