On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Prefork is always like that. It will spawn a process for each request. Not exactly. It spawns processes ahead of time, and then manages the process pool within specified parameters. Saying that it spawns a process for each request somewhat misses the "pre" nature of "prefork", and also suggests that it will create processes forever, and destroy them once the request is over. --Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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