I guess your next step should be to profile the apache reqs?
Unless you know that you're doing CPU-heavy work in your apache procs (and it's unavoidable or already optimised), it seems that you could get back the responsiveness of your site?
It seems surprising that you're CPU-limited on the web head.
Unless you know that you're doing CPU-heavy work in your apache procs (and it's unavoidable or already optimised), it seems that you could get back the responsiveness of your site?
It seems surprising that you're CPU-limited on the web head.