On 7/20/05, Mishra, Pawan <Pawan.Mishra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I am using I.H.S. 1.3.26.2 with Websphere and have frequently noticed that > there are many httpd processes older than two days. This happens even if > application is not heavily used in the mean time. > > Can someone help me out to know what may be the reason for this and how can > I ensure that the httpd processes go away as usual after serving the > request. httpd processes do *not* go away after serving requests. They wait for new requests to appear. This "pre-forking" makes the server much more efficient. So it is completely normal to see long-lived httpd processes. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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