Apache problem??

[jeffvanderdoes]

All,

I'm running 2.6 64 bit and have noticed lately when I go into htop I have 55 processes showing "/usr/sbin/apache2 -k -start".  I suspect this is some sort of startup error but am learning linux so don't know where to start the log search or problem resolution.  Anybody able to give me some places to start trying to resolve it (if not an issue please let me know).

Thanks,
Jeff