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I'm trying to understand more how Apache works. I used top -c to analyze Apache processes. On two of my servers I constantly have: 

httpd -k restart -DSSL 
httpd -k restart -DSSL 
httpd -k restart -DSSL 
httpd -k restart -DSSL 
httpd -k restart -DSSL

From what I understand this restarts Apache. Why are there so many processes restarting Apache. What I expected was:

httpd -DSSL

Can someone explain this to a newbie admin? The sites are all running fine, should I still worry about it?

Thank you Oliver

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For clarification instead of httpd -k start -DSSL I ONLY have restart commands. Why is that? Exploit? – mashup Sep 14 '11 at 2:58
Could you please edit your post to append the output of ps auxfw | grep httpd? – quanta Sep 14 '11 at 3:18
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