On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Harald Falkenberg <harald.falkenberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using apache server 1.3.41 on a solaris 10 system (x86). in httpd.conf I > set: > ... > MinSpareServers 10 > MaxSpareServers 90 > StartServers 90 > MaxClients 90 > ... > > When starting apache via 'apachectl start' I see that these 90 processes > were started quite immediately, but it took almost 1,5 minuts before each of > the child processes changed their owner from root to another local user. > > it is also suspicous, that when studying the ps output, that between each > change of owner for a further child process, a period of 1 second seemed > always be used. Are you using NIS or LDAP on your system? The only hang in this neighborhood I've ever seen was when LDAP was used for groups and getgroups() would take seconds. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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