My Debian install is using 9mb of memory with lighttpd installed as shown below. I use this setup with my LinuxHelpResource.com site. I am very happy with Debian, so happy I am going to write about apt package managment and how it is used!

www:~# free -m           total       used       free     shared    buffers     cachedMem:          1024          9       1014          0          0          0-/+ buffers/cache:          9       1014Swap:            0          0          0