On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Richard Peacock wrote: > I was diagnosing an un-related issue on my web-server and had to list > processes to see which PID needed to be killed. I noticed that there were > several entries for the “http2-prefork” process … > > I mean, it’s not a huge problem or anything the webserver seems to be running > OK - but is it right there should be multiple processes running like this? I > am sorry but I do not know if you need to view any configs or if there is a > setting somewhere that controls the number of processes, I installed it > through Yast and left it as default (as I am a newbie and this is for a home > website!). >
Yes, this is how it works. There's one parent process, and it pre-forks (creates multiple copies) in order for each one of those copies to handle incoming requests. It's normal and expected. Each child process can handle an inbound request, and the parent is responsible for delegating the requests to the child processes, and making sure that there are enough to handle the load. --Rich
