Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:36:10 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: Allen Cleveland <allenc@mindsieve.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running processes Message-ID: <19991107213610.A365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000201bf292f$0caf9ae0$0201010a@cmr.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19991107024625.00821100@mindsieve.com> <000201bf292f$0caf9ae0$0201010a@cmr.net>
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Mark Einreinhof wrote:
> Thanks, that worked... now I just wonder why I see 10 instances of apache
> running?
That's normal for Apache. It forks children before it needs them to
reduce overhead when serving requests (or something like that). You should
notice that they're all children of one master process:
ben@scientia:~$ ps jaxww | awk 'NR==1 || /httpd/'
USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
root 301 1 301 e4fc40 0 Ss ?? 1:06.75 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
www 69404 301 301 e4fc40 0 I ?? 0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
www 69405 301 301 e4fc40 0 I ?? 0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
www 72312 301 301 e4fc40 0 I ?? 0:00.10 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
www 72313 301 301 e4fc40 0 I ?? 0:00.13 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
Note the PID and PPID columns in particular, and that only one process
(pid 301 here) is a session leader.
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