What you observe is quite normal behaviour. I was expecting to see what MPM you use in the output of "httpd -l", but since it does not appear I'll assume it is prefork. Since you have not configured StartServers in httpd.conf, the value of this parameter defaults to 5 which means that 5 prefork'ed processes will be started upon initialisation of the server. Each of these 5 processes can handle one client connection.
If the number of simultaneous client connections increases beyond this, additional processes will be forked by the parent process up to the limit specified by MaxClients which by default is 256. Actually, to be entirely exact, if the number of idle processes falls below MinSpareServers, new processes will be forked until there are at least MinSpareServers idle processes or the MaxClients limit is reached. If there are more than MaxSpareServers idle processes (processes not serving a connection), idle processes will be killed until there is a maximum of MaxSpareServers processes. You can monitor server activity using mod_status. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#startservers and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html#maxspareservers and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_status.html for details. -ascs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:43 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiple httpd instances on startup? (OS X) ---- "Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by "instances"?? > > Do you mean that there are 5 httpd processes? > > Could you list the output of "httpd -l" and the value of your StartServers > configuration parameter? > > -ascs hugo:~ james$ httpd -l Compiled-in modules: http_core.c mod_so.c suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec I'm not sure what you mean by StartServices configuration parameter, though. This was a basic install with no extra configuration. Followed the directions in the httpd docs on httpd.apache.org to the letter. Where can I find config info on StartServices? James --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
