Re: [cobalt-users] HTTPD PIDs

[Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I ran 'more /var/run/httpd.pid' it shows one line containing the httpd
> PID. Is it normal to have so many httpd PIDs? And if it is, why? Also, why
> is there only one line in the httpd.pid file when there are 20 other httpd
> processes as well? One process for every http request or something like
> that?

As part of Apache's startup, it looks in httpd.conf for StartServers
then adjusts it as per the MaxSpareServers and MinSpareServers directives.

Look in your httpd.conf for those directives and the adjoining #comments
for more details, or the corresponding web pages on those directives.

tim

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