httpd processes out of hand?
I've got a server running h-sphere (control panel. http://www.psoft.net) and hosting one fairly large/busy website (12,000 member forum) its just a 2.0ghz celeron box but the httpd processes are starting to get out of hand, as soon as we start apache and people start browisng the forums there is upwards of 50 httpd processes. why is this exactly? each of them is using between 8mb and 18mb of ram and the box only has 512mb. each is also using a fair amount of cpu (in `top` the first few are 20% and 15% usage usually the the rest are anywhere from 0.5% to 5%.. all in all using around 90-100% usage all the time. What causes this to happen, anybody have any ideas? The database is fairly large - does it need a re-index possibly or would that not cause this sort of problem?
