I know the possible the wrong list, but i need a quick solution or answer. See, we have a 1U compaq server w/ 512 meg of ram running as the production web server for the company's web apps. Was fine for a long time until the admin decided to reinstall the OS with RH 9. Was running RH something. Anyway, so we just finished a RH Enterprise ES (3.0?) install, apache and PHP, basic stuff, all packaged cept the PHP / Apachessl, and this server connects to the MSSQL server. So about 40 ppl access this server, and everything was cool for about a week since it was installed, cept today we had load avg's of 1 - 2.5, and httpd processes (the ps shows about 13 of them) had about 15 megs of RAM usage each, and about 30-50% process usage as well.. up to 4 active at the same time with this usage. Logs looked good, php error logs look fine, syslog looks fine, top shows mostly user processor usage, and it's not swapping to the hdd. the httpd.conf file is default cept the virtual hosts, of course. a simple restart of apache didn't work, but stopping and starting it again did the trick. This doesn't look good! Don't want to have to babysit the process.. any ideas or direction I can move towards? Gonna keep googl'ing for now. thanks -- Aaron Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us - JID: mindstorm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The essential feature of complex behavior is the ability to perform transitions between different states ... Complexity is concerned with systems in which evolution, and hence history plays or has played an important role in the observed behavior.