Last night after posting the previous post, I noticed that the httpd processes till consumed resources, but not near as much as before. This leads me to believe that the RPC ping process that is controlled via PHP scripting is somehow spawning the child httpd processes that are causing the slow downs on the server.

As I have said, I am not too worried about it at this point, because I will be delivering the new server sometime in the next two weeks, so I won’t have to worry about it after that.