Re: squid - 16 child processes?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:40:22PM -0500, Tomasz Wzietek wrote:
> is it normal that squid spawns 16 child processes?
> here's what it looks like:
> 
> |-squid---squid-+-5*[dnsserver]
> |               |-5*[ncsa_auth]
> |               |-pinger
> |               `-squid---16*[squid]
> 
> i checked the entire /etc/squid.conf file and couldn't find
> anything that would let me limit that number! i can limit
> the dnsserver and auth children but not that one...
> 
These are threads, and why would you want to lower that number?  They aren't
taking the memory like a normal process would, it's all shared within squid.

Mike