apache process size

[John ORourke]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to make my apache processes as small as possible, and one 
thing I find lacking in optimisation guides is actual real world process 
sizes.

So... how big is yours? ;)

Mine start at around 60MB, jump to 80MB when my app is initialised, and 
can peak at 120MB during their lifetime.  For reference I tried making 
the tiniest possible one with everything stripped out, and that was 
still 40MB - is this normal?

cheers
John