Not sure if this is the right place to be asking but I thought I would try. OK I am running Fedora Core 6 with Apache 2.2.3 (installed via yum). The server has 1.5gb RAM on a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz (2666 MHz). What I am running into is I am getting like 12 or more httpd processes running. Each processing using approximately 120mb RAM. I am running the system with prefork.c and here is the configu statement I have for it: <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 2 MinSpareServers 3 MaxSpareServers 10 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 </IfModule> I also have this line in my config: MaxMemFree 30720 Now can anyone know me why I have so many httpd processes running at a given time and why is each process using such a large amount of RAM. The number of sites I am running on the server is 7 domains and 4 sub domains so a total of 11 sites. Any advice you can give me in helping me possible reduce the amount of ram the system is using would greatly be appricated. Thanks, Billy Strader WebPool WebPool Pager: 865-417-5622 Work: 865-425-5178 Pager: 865-417-5012 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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