Serious HTTPD problems! Please help

Hi, I am using plesk on a 3.2Ghz p4 with 1GB of ram.

Currently when doing a 'top' apache dominates the top 10 processes and the CPU usage is rediculous (atleast 1% per process).

load average: 5.50, 4.81, 4.77

We are only hosting about 20 clients so I can't think of any reason for this high load average.

Here is part of 'Top':
CPU MEM
24679 apache 17 0 16636 16M 7128 S 2.2 1.6 0:02 1 httpd
25294 apache 15 0 16508 16M 7116 S 2.0 1.6 0:01 0 httpd
24435 apache 15 0 16520 16M 7012 S 1.9 1.6 0:03 0 httpd
21448 apache 15 0 16216 15M 6732 S 1.7 1.5 0:08 0 httpd
22230 apache 16 0 16008 15M 6744 S 1.7 1.5 0:06 1 httpd
24939 apache 17 0 16464 16M 7100 S 1.6 1.6 0:02 0 httpd
25402 apache 18 0 16156 15M 7092 S 1.6 1.5 0:01 0 httpd
22241 apache 15 0 16100 15M 6856 S 1.4 1.5 0:08 1 httpd
23566 apache 17 0 15756 15M 6788 S 1.4 1.5 0:04 1 httpd
25293 apache 17 0 16360 15M 7100 S 1.4 1.5 0:00 1 httpd
21061 apache 16 0 15900 15M 6700 S 1.3 1.5 0:09 1 httpd
23925 apache 15 0 16008 15M 6828 S 1.3 1.5 0:03 1 httpd
24361 apache 17 0 16208 15M 7008 S 1.3 1.5 0:02 0 httpd

(Yes I know, how disgusting!)

This box is hosted by ServerMatrix and ofcourse they have no idea what the problem is as I have contacted them numerous times. Is it possible to uninstall httpd and reinstall it without messing up my plesk?

Any help would be greatly appreciated Serious HTTPD problems! Please help

 

 

 

 

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