Thank you, FNW. I had written a web-based status page for my server that tapped into the http of the world server - unfortunately, it requires a login. And since it's pulling info live from the World, some asshat sat on the page spamming refresh over and over (about 200 times before I noticed) and I had to shut it down.
I cannot say it effected the World itself, but it did inspire me to ask for a World-controlled "push" stats feeder, either to DB or to XML. I am currently digging around to find where EQEmuMgmt page gets the player IP from - since that seems to need to get logged somewhere besides the humungous log files.
Thanks for the response. I'll post if I come up with anything.