diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 365d9275..da337052 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ NEWS
   * fixed body handling of status 300 requests 
   * spawn-fcgi: only try to connect to unix socket (not tcp) before spawning (#1575)
   * fix sending source of cgi script instead of 500 error if fork fails
+  * fix min-procs handling in mod_scgi.c, just set to max-procs (patch from #623)
 
 - 1.4.18 - 2007-09-09
 
diff --git a/src/mod_scgi.c b/src/mod_scgi.c
index 51cdb5ad..b7287ba8 100644
--- a/src/mod_scgi.c
+++ b/src/mod_scgi.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,9 @@ SETDEFAULTS_FUNC(mod_scgi_set_defaults) {
 						/* a local socket + self spawning */
 						size_t pno;
 
+						/* HACK:  just to make sure the adaptive spawing is disabled */
+						df->min_procs = df->max_procs;
+
 						if (df->min_procs > df->max_procs) df->max_procs = df->min_procs;
 						if (df->max_load_per_proc < 1) df->max_load_per_proc = 0;