Hammering the server

on W2003 Server

[bateman_ap]

Hi, I bought a new dedicated server (W2003) and installed on it Apache, PHP4 and MySQL in order to run a adserver I have been using.

I have previously been using it with a W2003 server and mySQL with PHP4 but using IIS, however i needed to take it to its own server as it was slowing down the hosted sites. I thought Apache would be the best choice on the new server as it appears PHP is more geared up to it?

However I have noticed that Apache is running at about 99% CPU. This can't be right is it? I remember when I was using it on my old server I ended up using FastCGI on the server and that seemed to work fine. Is there anything similar I should be using? (I am using the Apache dll at the moment and found something called eAccellerator but that crashed Apache after a couple of days uptime)

I did manual installs of PHP and auto install of mySQL and Apache.