I have a server p3 1Ghz 1gb ram for a customer. Its running 1000Apache daemons with keepalive on and timeout set to 5 seconds. Apache is using 75-90% of the cpu, 800MB ram, and load average of 5.00-10.00. The server is pushing 14-20Mbit. We are going to offload some of the traffic. But is this normal for apache, any tweaks that can shrink that cpu usage?
