Hi Andrew

Thanks for the prompt reply.

As a temporary fix I had created a variable in the shared memory to track which pid is holding the mutex so that the check in [https://svn.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/trunk/src/os/unix/ngx_process.c?annotate=blame#L503] works. It works fine for me, hadnt realized I could switch it off. Are we talking about putting "accept_mutex off" in the nginx.conf file? It will be great if you could explain what that will actually do, as in, how will the new requests be handed off to workers.

Best Regards
+Fasih