Heh, but that doesn't show me the one thing I'm interested in, the parent PID. The 'top' and 'ps' output don't have to be in sync; I just need a snapshot of 'ps' output at some point during the "bad time" in order to see who owns the newest 'httpd' processes.

FYI, your hoping wasn't enough (: 

ps: euid: keyword not found
ps: egid: keyword not found
ps: ni:2: keyword not found
ps: vsz:6: keyword not found
ps: rss:6: keyword not found
ps: stat:3: keyword not found
ps: tname:6: keyword not found
ps: stime: keyword not found
ps: bsdtime: keyword not found
ps: args: keyword not found
  PID %CPU %MEM
    0  0.0  0.0
    1  0.0  0.0
    2  0.0  0.0
...

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- tye        

In reply to Re^4: 'A' web server takes another "time out" (root) by tye
in thread 'A' web server takes another "time out" by tye

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