Synopsis: Rogue process eating up all the available cpu cycles State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 6 20:33:09 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: As Dean says, this appears to be a Linux kernel problem. Apache could handle it in a better manner, but doesn't because the implementation of that would be quite difficult in the current framework.
Try upgrading your kernel to 2.0.30. If that doesn't help, I'm afraid there really isn't too much we can do to help. This problem normally appears only on Linux and we have no reason to suspect it is caused by a problem in the Apache code.
