All "G" in scoreboard

[Vikrama Sanjeeva <viki.sanjeeva@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

  Right now its not a peak time on my web server, but still I see 200 concurrent requests and all of them are in G state,

200 requests currently being processed, 12 idle workers

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG_GGG_G_GGWGGG___GGG__GGGG
GGGGG.GG.G.GGG_.GG_.G.G_.........._..........C..................


I don't understand why 200 requests? Is it real-time figure or some old/stale apache child processes which didn't end for some reason ? Before capturing above scoreboard status; routine cron for log rollup run which restarted apache gracefully, but still I see no difference in concurrent request (still 200). Also:

ps -A | grep -c httpd

is giving 213 

From hhtpd.conf

####################
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers       8
MinSpareServers    5
MaxSpareServers   20
MaxClients       250
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>
####################

My understanding is that; at any given time, if server-status is saying "XYZ requests currently being processed...." then it means; XYZ HTTP requests are "currently" being executed by web server. 

Bye,
Viki.