I understand perfectly now, thank you so much. Now that I understand, let me ask a follow-up question. Since I will not be using this installation of Apache for anything other than learning, should I set StartServers at 1 since I will only need 1 open connection? I can guarantee I won't be needing any extra idle connections for the time being, and it doesn't make sense to have extra processes running if I won't need them. And now I know how to increase that should I need to. But thank you once again. I know exactly what's going on, and that's always a good thing! Take care. James --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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