Synopsis: Apache leaves defunct processes in the process list State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 2 19:02:15 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Apache prunes dead httpd children every second unless you've played with the source in http_main.c. Dead CGIs are pruned when the request is finished -- i.e. done sending results to the client and done logging. It's likely that you have a bunch of short-lived CGIs which generate a large amount of output which takes time to output to the client ... or that you've got some really badly connected clients and they're sticking around until the Timeout setting (default 20 minutes).
In any event this sounds like normal behaviour for Apache. Dean
