If looking at top each httpd processes generate about 20% cpu load. I tried opening a php-nuke site an oscommerce, a postnuke each request cause a 17 to 25% load.
System is a celeron 500 with 256mb ram.
like i say before everything ran flawlessly for the last month or so.
1:47am up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 4,34, 4,17, 2,45
114 processes: 106 sleeping, 7 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 93,2% user, 6,3% system, 0,0% nice, 0,3% idle
Mem: 254380K av, 170816K used, 83564K free, 0K shrd, 12480K buff
Swap: 265064K av, 1636K used, 263428K free 56976K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2951 www 19 0 14316 13M 4232 R 28,6 5,6 1:22 httpd
2948 www 20 0 13344 13M 4228 R 25,6 5,2 1:22 httpd
2949 www 20 0 14276 13M 4228 R 20,6 5,6 1:20 httpd
2950 www 19 0 14392 14M 4228 R 17,8 5,6 1:21 httpd
2613 root 11 0 872 872 592 R 0,5 0,3 0:03 top
3586 mysql 9 0 6988 6988 1912 S 0,3 2,7 0:00 mysqld
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,1 0,0 0:02 kscand
2140 mysql 9 0 6988 6988 1912 S 0,1 2,7 0:00 mysqld
3587 mysql 12 0 6988 6988 1912 S 0,1 2,7 0:00 mysqld
1 root 8 0 220 192 160 S 0,0 0,0 0:06 init