Is it advisable NOT to limit MaxRequestsPerChild in Win32 modperl?

[Foo JH <suppressed>]

Hi all (my turn to ask modperl questions this time),

My persistent peeve with the Win32 Apache2.2 modperl is that it 
sometimes throws out this odd error:

[Mon Mar 05 21:19:47 2007] [notice] Parent: child process exited with 
status 3221225477 -- Restarting.

It's not very nice to have clients see an intermittent error when 
running the modperl app, so I'm trying a trick to see if this error can 
be minimised: by making modperl reload itself after x requests. This I 
accomplish by setting a small number (for testing) to 
MaxRequestsPerChild to see how modperl recovers from a reload.

Unfortunately at least on Win32, it does not.

I get this error when apache:
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [notice] Child 2404: Process exiting because 
it reached MaxRequestsPerChild. Signaling the parent to restart a new 
child process.
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal -- 
Restarting the server.
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) mod_perl/2.0.3 
Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan  9 2007 23:17:20
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed 
to create the child process.
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [crit] (OS 6)The handle is invalid.  : 
master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child 
process 36
[Thu May 24 19:55:02 2007] [warn] (OS 995)The I/O operation has been 
aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.  : 
winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Thu May 24 19:55:03 2007] [notice] Child 2404: Released the start mutex
[Thu May 24 19:55:03 2007] [notice] Child 2404: Waiting for 1 worker 
threads to exit.
[Thu May 24 19:55:05 2007] [notice] Child 2404: All worker threads have 
exited.
[Thu May 24 19:55:05 2007] [notice] Child 2404: Child process is exiting

Does anyone have any ideas if this can be resolved? Or is it a 'windows 
thing'?