Why are 2 Apache processes created/necessary for Joomla stack?

isn’t one enough? someone plz explain to this noob…

ps. should mention im using the joomla 1.5.3 windows release.

You can find the reason at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/windows.html

* Because Apache for Windows is multithreaded, it does not use a separate process for each request, as Apache does with Unix. Instead there are usually only two Apache processes running: a parent process, and a child which handles the requests.

Cheers!

i see, interesting.