Running Apache with as few modules as possible

[Charles Howse]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Tom Worster wrote:

> On 4/28/09 3:14 PM, "Charles Howse" <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone see anything that I've commented that I'll be sorry for?
>> Can anyone suggest any more testing I should do?
>
> unfortunately i can't but i'd like to ask you to tell us, once  
> you're done
> with removing modules, how much memory you saved relative to where you
> started.
>
> i'm curious because i went through a similar exercise not long ago  
> and would
> be interested to compare notes.

OK, here we go:
With Apache running on the development machine, modules commented as  
in my first post --
CPU:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle
Mem: 27M Active, 139M Inact, 64M Wired, 11M Cache, 34M Buf, 648K Free
Swap: 512M Total, 60K Used, 512M Free

Apache running on the same machine without any modules commented  
except mod_ssl --
CPU:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.8% system,  0.4% interrupt, 98.1% idle
Mem: 27M Active, 134M Inact, 64M Wired, 13M Cache, 34M Buf, 3584K Free
Swap: 512M Total, 60K Used, 512M Free

I just ran 'top' after starting httpd to get these figures, maybe I  
should have done something different?
'bout the only thing that makes sense to me is I have more Free Memory  
when commenting all those modules.
What is the list's opinion on this?