Apache is starting a single child process while StartServers is set to 2 in httpd.conf.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Apache is starting a single child process while StartServers is set to 2 in httpd.conf:
<IfModule worker.c>
 StartServers         2
 ServerLimit          2
 ThreadLimit          20  
 ThreadsPerChild      10  
 MaxClients           20  
 MinSpareThreads      5
 MaxSpareThreads      5
 MaxRequestsPerChild  0
 </IfModule>

 root     17564     1     -  0    1 15:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd.worker
 apache   17593 17564     -  0   12 15:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd.worker <== one child process

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • httpd-2.2.3-65.el5_8.3

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