title: Django Deployment: Cutting Apache's Overhead
body: <p>I have a small VPS server that has a Nginx front end that serves up static media files and passes Django requests back to an Apache 2.2 prefork MPM server running mod_wsgi.</p>
  
  <p>With one (very) small site loaded and working, it's currently using 143MB of 256MB of RAM.</p>
  
  <p>Using the <code>top</code> command I can see that Apache is using 52.9% of available RAM, with memcache in second using 2.1%.</p>
  
  <p>Considering that I'm planning on putting quite a few Django projects on this one server, I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to trim the amount of RAM that Apache is using?</p>