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Re: I can see many instances of httpd (apache), will it harm if I reduce to only one s

Doug Herr

2006-06-26, 1:12 pm

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:19:20 -0700, GS wrote:

> I enabled Apache on RH9, I can see eight httpd processes as per httpd.conf
> file, If I reduce to Two or One httpd process, will it be Ok?. does it
> need minimum 8 httpd running?.

To add to the other answer you got...

First off, there is no reason to worry about those 8 sitting there doing
nothing. They take very little of your system resources when they sit.

But if you don't have much traffic to your website, there is no reason
that you can not lower the spare server count.

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Doug Herr
doug*at*wombatz*dot*com