Re: number of child processes

[Arun Bhalla <bh...@uiuc.edu>]

"List" writes:
> Hi List,
> 
> I had just upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0. The first thing i notice is that there 
> are spamd child processes. I have 5 in total.
> 
> root      5691  0.0  1.3 30536 13604 ?       S    Sep29   0:28 spamd child
> root      5802  0.0  1.7 30260 17764 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
> root      5887  0.0  1.1 29632 11592 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
> root      5925  0.0  1.5 29764 16144 ?       S    Sep29   0:27 spamd child
> root      6155  0.0  1.7 30564 18176 ?       S    Sep29   0:30 spamd child
> 
> 
> This is normal?

This is the default.  You can use the "-m <num>" parameter to reduce the
number of child processes.  

It's fairly similar to the Apache 1.x model, except that if there are more
requests than available children, those excess requests will have to wait.

Arun