Let me know what I can do to try to get you some more useful
information to debug the problem (this will be my first serious
attempt to debug under Linux, so please be patient).
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For the record, I am noticing the following:
-- Server processes seem to remain in the status display with
a status of "W"; a netstat reveals that these connections are
stuck in CLOSE state (based on matching destinations)
-- Multiple server lines in the status page have the same PID
-- After a few days, Apache no longer accepts connections and
must be shut down and restarted; the wierd part of that has
been that I shut the server down each night to cycle/archive
the logs (would seem to indicate an intermitant problem)