apache problems

[zmenchhofer]

i have a horrid problem with apache running several proccess and killing the ram and CPU... any fixes ?
WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.11.0-S16908
FEDORA 4 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

top - 18:28:01 up 10 days,  5:21,  2 users,  load average: 0.94, 1.25, 1.19
Tasks: 147 total,   2 running, 144 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 66.0% us,  3.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 30.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    970008k total,   955028k used,    14980k free,     8500k buffers
Swap:  1966072k total,  1185004k used,   781068k free,    44328k cached
 
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
27414 nobody    17   0  143m 121m 2128 S 62.9 12.8   0:06.37 httpd
15978 nobody    15   0  141m 113m 2552 S  0.0 12.0   0:41.72 httpd
15979 nobody    16   0  143m 4416 2976 S  0.0  0.5   0:21.18 httpd
15980 nobody    16   0  143m  25m 2960 S  0.0  2.7   0:38.84 httpd
15981 nobody    15   0  142m  63m 2548 S  0.0  6.7   0:29.94 httpd
15982 nobody    15   0  141m 6676 2996 S  0.0  0.7   0:23.72 httpd
16010 nobody    16   0  143m 106m 3252 S  0.0 11.2   1:06.27 httpd
16013 nobody    17   0  143m  37m 2932 S  0.0  4.0   0:42.78 httpd
16016 nobody    15   0  142m  67m 2920 S  0.0  7.2   0:24.90 httpd
16017 nobody    16   0  143m  62m 2988 S  0.0  6.6   0:27.40 httpd
16131 nobody    16   0  143m 4276 2920 S  0.0  0.4   1:03.84 httpd
24031 nobody    15   0  142m  62m 2512 S  0.0  6.6   0:13.54 httpd
25382 nobody    16   0 23676 5196 2924 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.26 httpd
25383 nobody    16   0 22948 9596 2596 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.46 httpd
27391 nobody    15   0  142m 122m 2128 S  0.0 12.9   0:06.14 httpd
27393 nobody    15   0 22448 9484 2120 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.45 httpd

[mitul]

For your issue I think you should check below things:

1. Check access_log for the connections coming to apache.
2. Use netstat to check incoming traffic on port 80.