Scott Lundgren's questions

Page load makes a quick initial connection, then hangs about 10 seconds before the page renders. When the server load goes up I start watching top & I see that both CPUs get pegged at times to 100% by between 4-8 processes of php-cgi. My theory is that since I never see RAM usage never go above 50%, that apache is able to handle the requests coming in, but is queueing them for PHP to process. What is wrong with my mod_fcgid/php configuration ?

RHEL 5.4
2 Xeon E5420s @ 2.50 Ghz
4 Gb RAM

Apache 2.2.3
Timeout 30
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 0
KeepAliveTimeout 5
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 300
MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

mod_fcgid 2.2.10
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
<IfModule !mod_fastcgi.c>
AddHandler fcgid-script fcg fcgi fpl php
</IfModule>
SocketPath run/mod_fcgid
SharememPath run/mod_fcgid/fcgid_shm
DefaultInitEnv PHPRC "/etc/"
FCGIWrapper /usr/bin/php-cgi .php
MaxRequestsPerProcess 1500
MaxProcessCount 20
IPCCommTimeout 240
IdleTimeout 240

APC 3.0.19
extension = apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.optimization=0
apc.shm_size=32
apc.ttl=7200

APC cache is 43% used with a 99% hit rate

I don't understand how to allow syntax highlighting in files I'm editing via vi when using sudo. When I sudo vi <filename> the terminal is only black & white of my terminal settings. In vi if I enter :syntax on nothing changes.

When I vi <filename> all the syntax is properly colored. Using RHEL 5.4, relevant env:

LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;
33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;
32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;
32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;
31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;
31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;
35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:

SHELL=/bin/bash

TERM=xterm-color