PHP Laravel memory usage increase on Direct Admin server - php

We have developed Laravel based software, locally tested with Laravel Valet and everything is working fine. One installing on a staging (direct admin) webserver with exactly the same database and code the memory usage dramatically increased.
Local testing specs:
OS: MacOS Catalina
Proc: 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
Memory: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Staging server specs:
OS: CentOS 7.0 64-Bit
Processor Speed (MHz) 2693.670
Total Memory 1014728 kB
This is a basic static page:
Staging server: 21MB, PHP 7.4.2
Development machine: 5MB, PHP 7.4.4
Another larger page (which needs optimization):
Staging server: 101MB, PHP 7.4.2
Development machine: 85MB, PHP 7.4.4
We know this development machine is a lot slower but we cannot explain the memory usage increase. Does anybody know how to analyze and resolve this?
The used framework is Laravel v6.18.20


Well Laravel Valet uses a very lightweight web server and that is a huge difference, I suggest to configure your webserver to use Nginx instead of Apache and be sure you are using PHP as FPM module, generally speaking, servers with Direct Admin uses Apache webserver by default and that will increase the memory usage of every request.
Try to switch to an Nginx webserver

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