Sounds like something isn't right. You might have a setup where everything is enabled (at least from a high memory consumption point of view). You can get the A

Sounds like something isn't right. You might have a setup where everything is enabled (at least from a high memory consumption point of view). You can get the Apache child processes down to ~2MiB (still a bit high by lighttpd and nginx standards) by disabling a lot of the modules. How many child processes started by default? Check your mpm settings, as you could be using the configuration for a beefy server environment.