Hello all I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets around its name when I call "ps ax". For example, the sshd here: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [snip those procs] 170 ? SW 0:01 [sshd] [snip those procs] And why does apache create so many instances of itself? I know this can be config'd, but how many are necessary for a fairly small setup? PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [snip those procs] 191 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 201 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 202 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 203 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 204 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 205 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 718 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 719 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache 720 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache [snip those procs] TIA Sven
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