Thanks Joshua for the idea. We would try it. We actually have more than 20 such processes even after server has been idle. Btw, what is the time after which a process dies in case there is no further request and the number of spare servers is more than 2? Thanks in advance, Pawan -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:11 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Httpd processes exist for more than two days On 7/21/05, Mishra, Pawan <Pawan.Mishra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Joshua. > > I have - > > MinSpareServers 1 > MaxSpareServers 2 > > So once there are more than two processes that are spare (not getting > used), shouldn't they be killed automatically? So at any point of time > when there is no traffic, there should not be more than 2 processes. Yes, although it may be more like 3 or 4 processes because of certain support processes. If you have more than that when the server is idle, then you should fire up mod_status and look at the server-status handler to see what they are doing. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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