Re: [cobalt-users] newbie question about "top"

[Matt Perry <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Casselman, Chad wrote:

> In 'top' what is the command "httpd"?  Are those page requests that are
> getting serviced or what?

httpd are the web server child processes.  They are spawned from one
single master process.  If you type 'ps axf' in the shell you will see all
of the running processes and the child processes that they have spawned.
When Apache (httpd) is run it spawns anywhere from 5-10 of these child
processes to serve requests.  It can create more, or less, of them
depending on the number of incoming web requests.  Even if the server is
idle, there will be a few of these processes hangin around ready to
service requests.

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