What are Idle workers?

[impload]

Hello cPanel Community
Can someone explain what idle workers are?

Are they like stuck processes that are doing nothing?

I see this in my WHM:

9 requests currently being processed, 121 idle workers

[eth00]

They are idle apache workers, basically they are not doing anything and waiting for a client connection.

Some good info in the apache docs you can read over if you are interested:

worker - Apache HTTP Server