Petra Winkler <petrawinkler2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> when I put a ps aux | grep apache I get:
<snip>

> You see that there are very many processes

Those are not processes, they are children, they share memory and
other resources, even if they appears like different processes.

> Does anybody know what this could be???

Evidently you have a lot of connections or you are using some kind of
server-programmin (php? SSI?) that require a lot of resources, if you have
enabled server-status (and if you didn't, it's a good moment to do so),
try to check the status of the server.

Davide

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