Printable View
Hello,
I am runin apache webserver and i was wondering why it uses multiple instances of /usr/bin/apache. My output from "ps ax":
237 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
248 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
249 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
250 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
251 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
252 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
Just wondering if that is nesecary
Yeah, it's supposed to work that way. It keeps a server pool for parallelizing tasks. On a low-usage server, you might not actually need that many, but on the other hand, it doesn't hurt. Since most memory is shared among the slave servers, not much more resources is used by each individual one.
How would I go about droping 2-3.Quote:
On a low-usage server, you might not actually need that many
You can change the NumServers directive in httpd.conf. But why would you want to?