httpd consume 90% CPU with php

Hello all, I installed PHP 4.1.1 successfully on Apache 1.3.12, but about once or twice per day, when I run the 'top' command, httpd will be sucking up as much of the CPU time as it can. I'm running Redhat 6.2. I restart httpd and things return to normal. Once in a while, openssl crashes without affecting the rest. I haven't actually put any PHP scripts on the server yet except the "show all env vars" test script, which was running. I started with PHP 4.0.6, and then installed PHP 4.1.1 after about a week of the problem. When I remove PHP from httpd.conf, the problem goes away ( it appeared with PHP ). Any advice would be appreciated. Regards, Brian Jacobs During conf/make/make install, the only non-default thing I specified was ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs I don't see how this would have affected anything.