HELP - Crazy Apache Problem

All of a sudden, apache has starting to go crazy.

It will not run more than 3 minutes at a time before it does not accept any more request.

I have tried accessing it from many different isp's, proxies, etc, all the same. Also, we have several monitoring services, so I know it's not my connection.

I can run ./Apache status and see that many pids are running even after it cuts out. After it cuts out, I restart it and everything is fine but then 3 minutes later it starts up again.

The only thing that I ran since it was normal and now was up2date for red hat linux but I doubt that is the case. Nothing else for the past few weeks.

Here are the httpd.conf variables but I have tried changing these based on suggestions I found on the web and nothing.

ServerType standalone
ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache"
PidFile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 100
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150

Everything else is either off or disabled.

Again, I have tried changing these numbers every which way based on suggestions on apache.org and other sites but nothing works, so I went back to the defaults.

Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

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