What frustrates me about Apache's mod_status is that it's powered by a normal request handler. If all the child workers are busy, your request for a status repo

What frustrates me about Apache's mod_status is that it's powered by a normal request handler. If all the child workers are busy, your request for a status report will timeout, even if you're running it locally from the command line. Not super helpful when you're troubleshooting in real time. Anyone know if there's a "deeper" way to get the same stats info about what Apache is doing without having to basically wait in line with all the other incoming requests?