The general recommendations:
- use cache plugin for your WP installation
- reduce PHP memory_limit to (32..96M) to start seeing PHP memory exceed errors
- disable useless and new plugins
- make sure all reporting settings are on
- reduce max worker processes by hand (3..10)
- set nonzero MaxRequestsPerChild if you think that PHP/Apache may have leaks (errors in compiled code of PHP interpreter or Apache server)
- reduce ServerLimit
- reduce MaxClients
- use PHP in FPM mode
Specific advices:
- write a bash script to measure memory usagemeasure memory usage or collect peakcollect peak and put it in cron. You'll have stats for memory usage of a process over time.
- or use munin as more advanced solution.