Rails - Jan 2006 - Lighttpd/FastCGI dispatch.fcgi processes

I have the fastcgi.server part of my lighttpd.conf like this:

fastcgi.server = (
    ".fcgi" => (
      "test" => (
        "socket" => "/tmp/test1.socket",
        "bin-path" =>
"/home/paulbarry/public/dispatch.fcgi",
        "min-procs" => 1,
        "max_procs" => 2
      )
    )
  )

When I start up lighttpd, there are 4 processes:

28505 root      17   0 25224  20m 1976 S  0.0 45.7   0:03.09 dispatch.fcgi
28504 root      18   0 20720  13m 1660 S  0.0 29.5   0:02.38 dispatch.fcgi
28503 root      18   0 20720 1080  856 S  0.0  2.3   0:02.55 dispatch.fcgi
28501 root      18   0 20720  996  856 S  0.0  2.2   0:02.19 dispatch.fcgi

Right after I start up lighttpd, If I try to hit my site, the browser just
waits for about 1 minute.  Once the first hit returns, then the site seems
to work fast after that.  So my questions are:

1.  Why does lighttpd take a minute to start?  What is it doing?
2.  Why are there 4 dispatch.fcgi processes, if I have max_procs set to 2?
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