httpd running under 2 users
I have this strange thing on a server running RH9 with Cpanel. I have one httpd process running under root and serveral defunct processers running under nobody.
I find this rather strange, does anyone know whats wrong? Below is the output from top.
32235 root 24 0 3260 3004 1476 S 15.4 0.5 7:10 0 httpd
2678 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 2.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2679 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2682 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2685 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2687 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2693 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2694 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2698 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2703 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2704 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
2705 nobody 24 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunc
