apache spawning too many processes despite maxclient and other constraints

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Published on 2010-12-22T06:24:02Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 6:55 UTC
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Here are my MPM constraints:

StartServers 10 MinSpareServers 10 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 10 MaxRequestsPerChild 2000

However despite this, I have over 20 apache processes running currently, and in the past hour or two there have been as many as 40-50. Shouldn't the MaxClient and MaxSpareServers keep the number of processes under control (i.e. about 10)?

Is there something I'm missing?

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