diff --git a/railties/CHANGELOG b/railties/CHANGELOG
index 396557323576f7abfd850b8e3e1dc980aa8744d2..d14ec8fa12795556fef47e42d7bd8b6c66a66288 100644
--- a/railties/CHANGELOG
+++ b/railties/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Fixed WEBrick servlet slowdown over time by restricting the load path reloading to mod_ruby
+
 * Removed Fancy Indexing as a default option on the WEBrick servlet as it made it harder to use various caching schemes
 
 
diff --git a/railties/dispatches/dispatch.rb b/railties/dispatches/dispatch.rb
index 1f0914f8d03892e58b4d1af34e19a98c25b00a36..9b5ae760ffda6c355585e55c06d3971f270633e2 100755
--- a/railties/dispatches/dispatch.rb
+++ b/railties/dispatches/dispatch.rb
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 # "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.8.0/lib/dispatcher" -- otherwise performance is severely impaired
 require "dispatcher"
 
-ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS.reverse.each { |dir| $:.unshift(dir) if File.directory?(dir) }
+ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS.reverse.each { |dir| $:.unshift(dir) if File.directory?(dir) } if defined?(Apache::RubyRun)
 Dispatcher.dispatch
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