Why does xampp start two httpd processes?

[dhinged]

I was looking through my Task Manager processes (Windows XP) because my computer was running slow, and I saw two httpd processes, both about 40MB. When I opened Process Explorer, one showed as a child of the other. The parent was httpd -k and the child was httpd -d... I don't understand why the httpd -d process uses 40MB. I don't want to be running duplicate httpd processes just to have one do something slightly different.

Can someone explain why this is happening and how to optimize this? Is xampp working on fixing this?

[Altrea]

There is nothing to fix. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
The parent process observes the child process, restarts it if it stops, read the configuration, etc and the child process processes all the requests. So they are not duplicates of each other. Two processes are fine on windows.

[darius]

Ok, but 2 apache processes are not a standard with other apache triad, quad stacks for windows.

Could you be more specific why two apache processes are required by XAMMP and not by others ?

btw

How to standard Zend for windows to work with compressed php ?
Installed zend but it doesn't look to work properly, decompressing php files.

Any hint how to get zend started with apache server ?

[JonB]

Darius -

I'm afraid you are poorly informed, and its not really a XAMMP issue, its an Apache issue. XAMPP uses the 'standard Apache model'.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/platfo ... .html#cust

It only is of consequence if you are using code that assumes it is on a Linux box, and is using direct manipulation of the worker processes. It should not affect most things a developer will do, as the ASF developers have made the proper measures to handle things.

And, as for the rest - I guess you will have some work to do.

[darius]

Nothing wrong.

"
Instead there are usually only two Apache processes running: a parent process, and a child which handles the requests. Within the child process each request is handled by a separate thread.
"
hint: "there are usually"

btw

installed xampp on d:\xampp
and
apache, mysql, filezilla, mercury
all started to work from XAMPP Control Panel App

Now need to get c:\xampp back to work, since my Joomla, Mediawiki, Wordpress, Drupal all sit on c:\xampp\mysql

thanks for XAMPP