oversized httpd process?

[Lei Sun]

Hi,

I saw many posts from google regarding to this question, but there
were no definite answers..

some say, it's mod_ssl, some say it's mod_perl, some say it is mm. But
my case, it just doesn't make much sence to me at all.

Here are the 2 test machines that I have, both have the exact same configuration

A is a lot more powerful than B

machine A, p4 3.0 2GB Mem
machine B, p2 450Mhz 128MB Mem

Both have mod_php, mod_ssl, and no traffic has been sent.

Looking at the httpd sizes, I start to wonder ... How come Machine B
only uses around 15Mb per httpd, while machine A takes 155Mb, and
while they have exactly the same software, same configuration.

Can somebody please tell me why this is happening? What did I do wrong?



machine A:
last pid:  9085;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00                  
                                                              up
0+05:52:01  00:13:28
33 processes:  1 running, 32 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 48M Active, 84M Inact, 92M Wired, 8K Cache, 112M Buf, 1779M Free
Swap: 4071M Total, 4071M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  440 root      96    0   155M 17412K select 0   0:02  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 9078 www       96    0   155M 17412K select 0   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 9079 www       20    0   155M 17412K lockf  0   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 9080 www       20    0   155M 17412K lockf  0   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 9081 www       20    0   155M 17412K lockf  0   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 9082 www       20    0   155M 17412K lockf  1   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd


machine B:
last pid: 19765;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00   up 80+00:30:59  00:15:25
32 processes:  1 running, 31 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 19M Active, 46M Inact, 30M Wired, 5100K Cache, 22M Buf, 17M Free
Swap: 231M Total, 21M Used, 210M Free, 9% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
50855 www       20    0 16348K    12K lockf    0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50856 www       20    0 16280K    12K lockf    0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50854 www       20    0 15272K    12K lockf    0:01  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50853 www       20    0 14972K    12K lockf    0:01  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50852 www       20    0 12480K    12K lockf    0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50858 www       20    0 12352K    12K lockf    0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50857 www       96    0 12352K    12K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
50851 root      96    0 12336K  1560K select   0:59  0.00%  0.00% httpd