7/20    Does anyone know what the lockf state is under FreeBSD top is?
        \_ probably related to the one mentioned in the man pages for lockf
           \_ httpd's been in the state for days.  Is it a good idea to
              kill -HUP it?
                \_ Not if you're running apache and it's still answering
                   connections.  It's probably not constantly in flock state
                   just happens to be there when you check.  Apache uses flock
                   to control which child answers incoming connections so
                   multiple ones don't try to answer the same call.