apache causes high load??

For some reason, apache seems to be getting stuck and causing insane loads. In my error logs, I'm noticing a lot of segmentation faults, but I have no idea where from. And today, I noticed this:

[Fri Oct 29 18:41:58 2004] [error] child process 8001 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Fri Oct 29 18:42:00 2004] [error] could not make child process 8001 exit, attempting to continue anyway


Of course, there's a lot more processes, and they aren't nicely in order like that, but basically they can't be killed. My loads then climb up into the hundreds very quickly.


I also have this:

[Fri Oct 29 18:42:00 2004] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Fri Oct 29 18:42:05 2004] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Oct 29 18:42:05 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Fri Oct 29 18:42:05 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Fri Oct 29 18:42:49 2004] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down


I'm not sure where to start now, or if anyone knows anyone that knows more about apache.

The OS is CentOS 3.1, running w/ DA.

 

 

 

 

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