"Bill Stoddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Running 2.0 on AIX with the threaded MPM.  Start Apache as root. ps -ef | grep
> httpd shows one process running as root and the remaining processes running as
> nobody with a PPID of the parent process.  Fine so far. If I load the server
> down, the PPID of some of the child processes change to 1. Weird. Any ideas on
> what to look for in the code?

It seems that the proper parent process died, so the init process (pid
== 1) became responsible for reaping status of the children.

Run a syscall trace on the parent process and try to recreate the
problem.  Maybe the parent segfaulted or didn't handle some signal or
something. 

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