strange apache failure

[Warren Togami]

About 30 minutes ago web server (fairly heavy traffic site) stopped responding. This is Red Hat 8.0 fully updated. Here is the output of "ps ax".

PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:39 init [3]
1836 ? S 1:10 syslogd -m 0
1879 ? S 1:39 sendmail: accepting connections
1888 ? S 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/client 1920 ? S 0:01 crond
9754 ? S 1:06 /usr/sbin/httpd
30692 ? Z 0:31 [httpd <defunct>]
21284 ? Z 0:32 [httpd <defunct>]
8589 ? Z 0:32 [httpd <defunct>]
28034 ? Z 0:34 [httpd <defunct>]
28154 ? Z 0:32 [httpd <defunct>]
32331 ? Z 0:37 [httpd <defunct>]
6490 ? Z 0:31 [httpd <defunct>]
1844 ? Z 0:34 [httpd <defunct>]
23605 ? Z 0:30 [httpd <defunct>]

Then a few minutes ago after about 25 minutes of downtime Apache seemed to recover on its own, all the zombie processes are gone and things appear to be normal.

Perplexing...

Warren Togami
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