Spawn-fcgi spawning & killing

While we were trying out a new capistrano setup tonight we noticed that
the spawner would alternately spawn fcgi processes, then the next time
it would kill them, then create, then kill, etc…

From everything I can see/read/know, spawn-fcgi should not affect
running processes, right? Anyone else see this weird behavior? For now
we are using the ‘check the port before spawning’ shortcut instead
(which apparently is faster anyway), but it’s still disconcerting.

spawn-fcgi’s version is 1.4.11 on ubuntu…

-jay