<module>prefork</module></modulelist>
<usage>
- <p>Apache uses a scoreboard to communicate between its children
- and the parent. Some architectures require a file to facilitate
- this communication. If left unspecified, Apache first attempts to
- create the scoreboard entirely in memory (using anonymous shared
- memory), and failing that will attempt to create the file on disk
- (using file-based shared memory). Specifying this directive causes
+ <p>Apache uses a scoreboard to communicate between its parent
+ and child processes. Some architectures require a file to facilitate
+ this communication. If the file is left unspecified, Apache first
+ attempts to create the scoreboard entirely in memory (using anonymous
+ shared memory) and, failing that, will attempt to create the file on
+ disk (using file-based shared memory). Specifying this directive causes
Apache to always create the file on the disk.</p>
<p>File-based shared memory is useful for third-party applications