[Rowlf]

just noticed that there were no lsphp processes in the output above given that this is not a production box, here it is again with me frantically clicking through the pages of a test site:

        |-litespeed(24425)-+-httpd(24426)
        |                  `-litespeed(24427)-+-admin_php(24479)
        |                                     |-lsphp5(24481)
        |                                     |-{litespeed}(24428)
        |                                     `-{litespeed}(24429)

ec2-user 24481 24427  2 11:59 ?        00:00:02 lsphp5
ec2-user 24514 24389  0 12:01 pts/0    00:00:00 grep lsphp5