WordPress’ Python Memory Usage Is High / keeps bringing my server & Apache down

I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with my site.

I am now at a fast VPS with 1 gig of memory on the account, and I still get weird site outages a few times a day.

Why? It seems Apache is being stopped by errors and spikes in memory usage (causing shortage) from my wordpress site. According to the techs it is from Apache’s use of python. They told me to optimize my scripts to reduce the memory outages.

Normally my site runs with like 300mb of ram free on the server and then both CPU and mem utilization spike.

Is this an exploit? Does WordPress even use python? What plugins might be doing it?

My active plugins are listed below. Also below are the logs from my host. Any insight or information appreciated. Thanks.
List of currently active modules:
Adminimize
Akismet
All in one SEO
Audio Player
Featured Content Gallery
Google Analyticator
Link Library
Nextgen Gallery
PageLinksTo
Pierre’s Wordspew
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Sidebar Login
Simple:Press forum
Sociable
The Events Calendar
Twitter Widget Pro
WP-Polls
WP-Paginate
WP-UserOnline

Email from hosting tech:
“Hello,

On checking the logs, I can see that the memory shortage on the server is due to apache calling python modules on the server. The logs are pasted below:

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[Mon Jun 21 11:27:21 2010] [error] make_interpreter: Py_NewInterpreter() returned NULL. No more memory?
[Mon Jun 21 11:27:21 2010] [error] get_interpreter: cannot get interpreter data (no more memory?)
[Mon Jun 21 11:28:32 2010] [error] make_obcallback: could not import mod_python.apache.\n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py”, line 22, in ?
import time
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/timemodule.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
[Mon Jun 21 11:28:32 2010] [error] python_handler: no interpreter callback found.
[Mon Jun 21 11:34:11 2010] [error] make_obcallback: could not import mod_python.apache.\n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py”, line 22, in ?
import time
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/timemodule.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
[Mon Jun 21 11:34:11 2010] [error] python_handler: no interpreter callback found.
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It seems that your scripts are using python modules. Please optimize your scripts to avoid resource usage.

Also, I have increased the MaxClients on the server to 200 to avoid apache from being restarted due to lack of child processes.”