FastCgiServer issue with static versus dynamic processes

I'm having a strange issue with FastCGI that I can't seem to figure out and
was wondering if anyone else has had this issue.

In my fastcgi.conf file (which is loaded by Apache), I have something
similar to the following:

FastCgiServer /path/to/public/dispatch.fcgi -idle-timeout 120 -initial-env
RAILS_ENV=production -processes 1

This works just fine and starts one process of the dispatcher, but the
moment I increase the processes to 2, it starts two processes but then
eventually starts spawning more processes dynamically. At one point, despite
having the line above in my config file with the processes set to 2, when I
ran 'ps aux' there had to be roughly 10 additional processes or more running
eating up roughly 600 MB of RAM.

Does anyone know what this issue might be???


michael


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