Continuing the processing, I've created a process that will guarantee abend my Apache servers. I've also sent a couple of core-dumps on up to Novell. I haven't heard from the webservices division person yet (whom I may have worked with before, IIRC), but that'll change. We attempted to replicate the problem on an apache running on OSX, but it handled the load fine. There are a bunch of other variables to test for that to be meaningful, but it is something.