observing some strange behaviour of a SuSE 7.0-apache running out of memory i came over the question if suse did compile the apache with threading support.

Even I don't see any relation to security, I'll try to answer :)

A bit OT here, but any short, maybe angry answer would be great.

Well, you can check the source RPM spec file. Here you'll find the configure options.

server-info says: Threads per child: 0. Does this mean: No threading,

Sound like that.

which means that every new user forces the start of a new httpd child process?

No, apache uses asyncronous IO. That means, the master process dispatches the request to a child, and each child can server lot's of connections. Well, I'm not sure if all of the things I say are correct, BTW :) IIRC, there is a dircetive in the configfile that adjustes the connections-per-child. I don't see advantages for unix-apaches to use threading and multiprocess asynchronous IO. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.