Parece haver uma diferença entre parar e iniciar o apache e fazer um apachectl graceful
restarting (ou seja, parar e iniciar ao invés de apachectl restart ) como encontrado em este site :
This is a bit of a guess, and probably wrong, but does stopping and
starting the server rather than restarting (they're different,
restarting (including gracefully) doesn't kill the master process)
help? As I understand it, there are issues in mod_proxy regarding the
scoreboard size when changes to the config are made between restarts.