Hello,
Those get spawned according to mpm settings, described at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mpm_common.html
Threaded mpm:
MinSpareThreads
MaxSpareThreads
Prefork mpm:
MinSpareServers
MaxSpareServers
A general description of what a mpm is and does, here:
Hello apache web community,
I upgraded apache web server on RHEL 7 from v 2.2 to v 2.4. I have a question
about the procs that are spawned after the web server is started up.
For example, when I would start v2.2 (./apachectl start) it would have the root
process and spawn 2 additional apache
