> First question, what is a typical use case for wanting multiple instances of a specific process? distribute the load. For example I can run several "redis wo

> First question, what is a typical use case for wanting multiple instances of a specific process? distribute the load. For example I can run several "redis workers" that gets jobs to do in a redis queue. > Second question, if I am running multiple managed processes, how can they all bind to the same managed socket? if you bind a socket and then forks 10 child processes, they can all accept connections on that socket and let the operating system do the load-balancing. This is exactly how the Apache pre-fork model works.