apache hangs the server:-(

[Aroop Maliakkal]

Hi,

When i restart apache, the memory usage shoots up to 1041M  after some 
time. After that, the server hangs up. Any solutions?
I'm using apache 1.3.33 .
This is the top result:-
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Swap: 2048276k av,  209452k used, 1838824k free                    8064k 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
15288 nobody    16   0 1041M 939M   852 D     2.9 93.0   0:08   1 httpd
    7 root      10   0     0    0     0 DW    0.8  0.0   2:02   0 kswapd
15284 nobody    11   0 14704  12M  6660 D     0.1  1.2   0:00   2 httpd
15294 nobody     9   0 14300 5548  5316 D     0.1  0.5   0:00   0 httpd
    1 root       8   0   108   80    80 S     0.0  0.0   0:03   3 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   1 keventd
    3 root      18  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 
ksoftirqd_CPU0
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Regards,
Aroop Maliakkal