Ralf Engelschall wrote:
> No, I think the startup procedure confused you. You looked via "ps"
directly
> after startup and found just a single process. Then you did the request
and
> found more processed. But that's a coincidence. What happens is that with
> mod_ssl the startup can take a few seconds(!) more (up to 10s on slow
> machines!) because two RSA temporary keys have to be generated. So, what
> happens is not that the children are forked on the first request. They
are
> forked at startup, but the startup needs a lot more time than with a non
> SSL-aware Apache.
Ah, you are right. Startup does take about 10 sec on this machine... it's an
old slow machine that I use for testing RPMs on a clean install. Okay,
thanks for explaining that.
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
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