I run an Apache prefork MPM on Ubuntu 10.04 server. It listens on port 8080. One process runs as root
, and the child processes run as www-data
. This is as advertised.
However, the root
process does answer requests, too! Therefore, some requests are answered as root
, and most as www-data
. This is unfortunate of course.
What's the reason for this? httpd.conf says
MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 5
StartServers 1
MaxClients 50