Synopsis: Files being served are loaded into memory then served State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 22 17:03:35 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: Apache does _NOT_ load the file into memory.
If you see the process size grow with the file, then it is probably because your system is configured to use mmap() for sending files, and your system happens to show the size of a mapped file as part of the process size. That memory is _NOT_ actually used once per proxy and it is shared between processes and automatically allocated and freed by the OS as part of its buffer cache as necessary, just like normal file caching.
