[ILUG] Apache and looping routines

[Donncha O Caoimh]

While working on a data streaming app I think I stumbled upon something
strange.
I test the server by launching "wget" X number of times from another
machine, usually 50 at a time with a "sleep 1" in-between.
The server responds with data sent from a PHP routine that loops via a 
while (true) {
}
loop.
Unfortunetly, when I kill the client side wget processes it doesn't seem
to close the connection on the server side! Further testing creates more
Apache processes and the server eventually stops responding to new
connections..
Does anyone know if this is normal behaviour when doing infinite loops
in server side scripting?
(or else it's a PHP4 bug..)

Donncha.