On 7/11/05, Jean-Christophe Montigny <jcm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Look back at your config. It says 5 threads minimum, so at elast 6 > processes are spawned when apache is started : the main process and 5 > childs. Your config says 50 max, so at maximum there would be 50 > threads... Normally, there's another config option that states how many > threads are started at startup (in apache 1.3 at least..) so that's why > there is a certain number of childs that are started straight... (18 in > your case) It's better, anyway, because in case of a peak the system > will be ready to answer a lot of requests. If you don't want that many > processes running, just lower your maxSparesTHreads Threads are not processes. According to another reply Linux just shows them as processes. The purpose of multi threaded Apache is to have less processes, which is why seeing so many struck me as odd. But it is clear to me now. 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
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