Hello, On aLinux system I have an Apache, with multi threaded worker, and the following in the conifg: <IfModule worker.c> StartServers 1 MaxClients 50 MinSpareThreads 5 MaxSpareThreads 50 ThreadsPerChild 5 MaxRequestsPerChild 100000 </IfModule> Just after having started though I notive quite a few processes: root 28544 1 5 10:09 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28546 28544 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28547 28544 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28548 28547 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28550 28548 1 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28551 28548 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28552 28548 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28553 28548 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28554 28548 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28555 28548 0 10:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28592 28544 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28593 28592 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28595 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28596 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28597 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28598 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28599 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 apache 28600 28593 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 Why is that? I would have expected only two: The main process, and one child. The server is serving no requests, so should not be spawning additional children. Krist -- krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx Solothurn, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx