Hi Philip,
That seems like too much memory per httpd.
Does the memory usage grow overtime, or is it static?
If it's static, then the BIG data structure(s) you're storing in
RAM may need to go to disk.
If it grows over time, maybe a data structure is
Recently, my machine got an upgrade from 128 MB RAM to 386 MB RAM.
The modperl enabled httpd process used to take up less than 10 MB each.
But now, after the memory upgrade it is suddenly taking up 86 MB. Here is
an excerpt from "top" (sorted by memory usage):
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS