Apache Developers, Here is my fifth patch that increases Apache's performance. This one eliminates the signal handling associated with graceful restarts. The inspiration for this patch is the NO_GRACEFUL part of Dean's top fuel patch http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/apache/1.3/top_fuel.patch This patch differs from the NO_GRACEFUL part of Dean's patch in that it eliminates the variables controlling graceful restart too, and the unnecessary checks of those variables. This patch also includes the missing SIGUSR1 manipulation in the new function quickly_read_request_line() (from patch #2). When I was splitting out patch #2 I accidentally omitted that snippet because it looked like NO_GRACEFUL stuff which was not relevant at the time. (Really, I am trying to be careful.) The base for this patch is Apache/1.3.6 + 10x performance increase patches #1 through #4. As always, I welcome your review, questions, and feedback. -- Michael J. Abbott mja@sgi.com