Too many apache childs

[Greg007]

Hi all,
I have a problem. Apache constantly increases amount of childs.
Right now I can see 95 apache processes, at the same time WHM's "Apache Status" show:

4 requests currently being processed, 9 idle workers

Why so many processes/childs when no real job.
Something wrong with my Apache?

P.S. I tried to apply MaxClients via WHM and pre_main_global.conf with no effect.

[Greg007]

Right now I have 42 apache childs:

top - 01:36:55 up 3 days, 16:06,  1 user,  load average: 1.15, 1.61, 1.64
Tasks: 212 total,   1 running, 211 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  5.5%us,  5.5%sy, 11.5%ni, 74.4%id,  2.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2074156k total,  1986740k used,    87416k free,    80080k buffers
Swap:  1003960k total,    65028k used,   938932k free,   609444k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6709 mysql     15   0  176m  67m 3940 S    3  3.3 196:02.31 mysqld
 8022 nobody    33  18  338m  55m 7936 S   21  2.7   0:01.36 httpd
 7571 nobody    34  18  338m  55m 7884 S    0  2.7   0:00.78 httpd
 7608 nobody    33  18  338m  55m 7896 S    0  2.7   0:02.88 httpd
21640 nobody    33  18  338m  55m 7888 S    0  2.7   0:01.77 httpd
 8717 nobody    33  18  340m  54m 7084 S    0  2.7   0:00.39 httpd
21674 nobody    33  18  340m  54m 7092 S    0  2.7   0:00.61 httpd
21447 root      33  18  335m  54m 9720 S    0  2.7   3:03.57 httpd
 9912 nobody    34  18  335m  51m 6488 S    0  2.5   0:00.11 httpd
10661 nobody    33  18  335m  51m 6416 S    0  2.5   0:00.12 httpd
10623 nobody    33  18  335m  51m 6416 S    0  2.5   0:00.08 httpd
13323 nobody    33  18  335m  51m 6404 S    0  2.5   0:00.02 httpd
21638 nobody    33  18  335m  49m 4988 S    0  2.5   0:00.00 httpd
 6713 named     23   0 93660  47m 1524 S    1  2.3  50:01.00 named
21637 root      33  18  331m  47m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.00 httpd
18024 root      33  18  330m  47m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.00 httpd
12598 root      33  18  329m  46m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.01 httpd
12506 root      33  18  327m  46m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.00 httpd
12344 root      33  18  326m  46m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.00 httpd
12276 root      33  18  325m  46m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.00 httpd
11689 root      33  18  324m  46m 4612 S    0  2.3   0:00.01 httpd

At the same time in Apache Status:

2.2 requests/sec - 20.0 kB/second - 9.1 kB/request
14 requests currently being processed, 1 idle workers

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Is it normal to have this number of childs each take 2% of memory during 2.2 req/sec ?