**Question: Why does one of the Apache.exe processes consume hundreds of megabytes of memory and not reduce it after the server has been running continuously for several days or after a peak in traffic?**
**Analysis:** Typically, in the "Windows Task Manager - Processes," you can see two apache.exe processes: one is the parent process, and the other is the child process. The parent process receives access requests and passes them to the child process for handling. The directive **MaxRequestsPerChild** sets the number of requests that an independent child process can handle. After handling the "MaxRequestsPerChild number" of requests, the child process will be terminated by the parent process, at which point the memory used by the child process will be released. If there are more access requests, the parent process will create a new child process to handle them.