Server load increases by lot of httpd request with same PID

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Published on 2014-08-20T16:13:15Z Indexed on 2014/08/20 16:23 UTC
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I can see that my server load increases to more than 200-300 range. Before 1 week the maximum load was around 20-25. In top and ps -ef i can see a lot of httpd threads and the PPID of most of the httpd request are of the same PID. When i verified this the parent process ID is of root. Please let me know how i can reduce the server load. I have searched a lot for this but not able to find out a proper solution for this. Please let me know.

Please see below a part of the top output.

apache   29698  2062  1 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29700  2062  3 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29701  2062 10 16:54 ?        00:00:02 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29702  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29703  2062  1 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29705  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29706  2062  3 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29707  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29708  2062  1 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29709  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29710  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29711  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

apache   29712  2062  0 16:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

Server version: Apache/2.2.3

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