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
