httpd keeps creating pid's

[cheesecake42]

I have httpd running on a server and every hour that it is running it creates about 12 new processes. After about 6 hours of this i have to restart httpd because of the overwealming amount of pid's that it is creating. Has anybody heard of anything like this and what I can do to stop it?

[davidanand]

hey,

Is any files running nobody permission ie nobody.nobody so that it may
create some process try killing the php apps
fuser -k /usr/bin/php
and check for scripts cresting some child process