Newbie: why so many slapd daemon processes?

["David Vu" <David.Vu@aarnet.edu.au>]

Hi,

I just compiled openldap-stable-20011102.tgz on a Red Hat 7.1 box and
although it all seems to run fine, it appears that the original slapd
spawn 4 more copies of itself:

ldap     21808  0.0  1.1 11948 2960 ?        S    19:23   0:00
/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///
ldap     21809  0.0  1.1 11948 2960 ?        S    19:23   0:00
/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///
ldap     21810  0.0  1.1 11948 2960 ?        S    19:23   0:00
/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///
ldap     21813  0.0  1.1 11948 2960 ?        S    19:23   0:00
/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///
ldap     21814  0.0  1.1 11948 2960 ?        S    19:23   0:00
/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///

Same for slurpd
root     21860  0.0  0.8  9680 2056 ?        S    19:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/slurpd
root     21861  0.0  0.8  9680 2056 ?        S    19:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/slurpd
root     21862  0.0  0.8  9680 2056 ?        S    19:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/slurpd
root     21863  0.0  0.8  9680 2056 ?        S    19:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/slurpd
root     21864  0.0  0.8  9680 2056 ?        S    19:30   0:00
/usr/sbin/slurpd

Now the normal RH openldap-2.0.11-8.rpm for Red Hat only runs one
process for each of the slapd and slurpd daemons.

My question is is this normal with my compiled daemon spawning a few
copies of itself?  Is it bad/good compared with the way Red Hat builds
their version?

Thanks,

David.