Re: Newbie: 2 Apache.exe processes running

Brian wrote:
> I am new to Apache and I am running Apache 2.0.49 with MySQL 4.0.20a
and PHP
> 4.3.7 on Win XP Pro in a training environment only. Everything is
working
> great but when I looked at the performance tab to see how all these
new
> services were hitting my memory usage, I noticed that I had 2
Apache.exe
> processes running. I figure these is a setting that says to open 2
on
> start, but I am not sure why this is needed. I shut one down and
everything
> thing works fine. I figure there is something in the httpd.conf
file, but I
> am not sure what I need to change.
>
> Can someone enlighten me on the what and where's to reduce this to
one
> process.

Both processes are necessary. One is a control/monitoring process that
launches the other process and relaunches it if there is every a
problem. The child process then serves the actual requests.

Joshua.

So basically, I will have 3 apache process running. 2 request processes and
1 for the monitor?

Brian


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> Brian wrote:
> > I am new to Apache and I am running Apache 2.0.49 with MySQL 4.0.20a
> and PHP
> > 4.3.7 on Win XP Pro in a training environment only. Everything is
> working
> > great but when I looked at the performance tab to see how all these
> new
> > services were hitting my memory usage, I noticed that I had 2
> Apache.exe
> > processes running. I figure these is a setting that says to open 2
> on
> > start, but I am not sure why this is needed. I shut one down and
> everything
> > thing works fine. I figure there is something in the httpd.conf
> file, but I
> > am not sure what I need to change.
> >
> > Can someone enlighten me on the what and where's to reduce this to
> one
> > process.
>
> Both processes are necessary. One is a control/monitoring process that
> launches the other process and relaunches it if there is every a
> problem. The child process then serves the actual requests.
>
> Joshua.
>