> I have limited the child processes to 3, and noticed that the child
> processes do not appear to die although their time and dates do appear
> to change.
>
> Is this a normal function of 3.0.1 or do I need to be concerned?
Normal function. SA now starts up some children and then hands them
messages to play with, rather than starting up a new child for each message.
After a while the children get old (200 messages by default) and are
replaced.
Note that you may want to limit --max-con-per-child to some fairly small
number like 20. There were rather bad problems in 3.0, mostly fixed in 3.01
with the children getting huge and forcing you into swap. Killing them
quicker reduces the chance of this being a problem.
Loren