On 5/3/2010 11:43 AM, Sam Carleton wrote: > > Interesting, so what purpose does the parent process preform with MPM > winnt? Is it just legacy?
No, it's certainly not legacy. It's very easy to have a semistable or unstable httpd process once you add in your efforts to hack custom perl or c modules, etc. The parent ensures that the server stays up, even as a worker process is lost or gracefully quits for MaxRequestsPerChild.
