I had written a script that grabs the PID numbers of all of the fcgi processes, then it killed them. The problem is that Apache probably will need to be bounced as well. We switched to mongrel and haven’t had any problems, so I suggest at least looking at it, unless you have a reason that forces you to stay with fcgi. With Mongrel you can still use Apache the same way, plus you gain load balancing and some other cool things.