I am having trouble with Apache on one of my web servers.  Every couple days, Apache jams up.  Upon looking at the log at /var/log/httpd/error_log I see the "[error] server reached MaxClients setting" but before that is the warning "[notice] child pid xxxx exit signal Segmentation fault (11)".  Here are a few bytes from the log:

[Mon Aug 22 23:52:12 2005] [notice] child pid 1053 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Aug 23 00:14:56 2005] [notice] child pid 1056 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Aug 23 04:30:49 2005] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
[Tue Aug 23 12:13:48 2005] [warn] child process 3058 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Aug 23 12:13:50 2005] [warn] child process 32079 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Aug 23 12:13:50 2005] [warn] child process 6229 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Aug 23 12:13:50 2005] [warn] child process 2574 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM

The "process xxxx still did not exit" warnings continue on for a while.  They are from the Apache restart command which tries to kill all Apache processes but has trouble doing that for some reason.  After a few minutes, Apache does restart, but it is really annoying me and the people who have data on this server.  The weird thing is that this server has not had such a problem since it\'s commission over a year ago and no updates or anything recently have been performed which could be associated to this problem.

SERVER INFO:
OS: Linux Redhat 9
Apache version: 2.0
Persistent connections: Off
PHP version: 4.2.2

Any help?  Thanks.

This is a production web server, so upgrading in such a way is not an option.