Normal to have 14 httpd processes?

[alan]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Chris W. Parker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just noticed that I've got 14 httpd processes all using about ~23 MB
> of virtual memory. One of the services is owned by root and the other 13
> are owned by apache. Our site is by no means high traffic. In fact, it's
> very low traffic. And on top of that the load average is currently at
> 0.00.
>
> Normal? Abnormal?

Normal.  The server will prefork a bunch of processes.  The number is 
configurable in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or something similar.

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