you can run the httpd process in inetd mode
check out the httpd.conf file
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From: KUMAR RAM VIRWANI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ILUG Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] httpd processes
>yes you can terminate any of the processes if you are low on memory. you
>can use the command kill -9 () where () is the process id which you can
>get by doing ps aux|grep root if you are the root and replace root by your
>id if you are any other user. just mind well that you cannot kill a
>process starte by any other user, except that the root can kill any
>process.
>
>regards
>kumar
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>On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Satya wrote:
>
>> On Mar 6, 2000 at 23:33, Mayur Joshi wrote:
>>
>> > When I see the different processes running on my system, I saw the
>> > httpd process entries 6 times. Out of 6 one consumed 2.34% of memory &
>> > other 5 consumed 0.16% of memory. Is it ok if I terminate other
>> > processes? I'm a bit low on my mem.
>>
>> (Please set a sane line length. Don't post HTML)
>>
>> Appache spawns several processes to handle incoming requests. If you see
>> $ServerRoot/conf/httpd.conf you will see the explanations. Look for
>> MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers. Your particular problem can be
>> changed by editing the StartServers value.
>>
>> > One more thing....I'm using Apache 1.3.6.
>> > Does that version has problems handling CGI?
>>
>> So am I. Not that I'm aware of:
>> Linkname: satyap.myip.org -- Satya's machine: Stats
>> URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/stats.pl
>> Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed)
>> Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
>>
>>
>> > I'm a bit lazy to go through known bugs....
>>
>> You should :)
>>
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