32 Mb was okay for Drupal 5, but D6 needed more. And D7 apparently needs even more. I run all my sites at 128 Mb without problems. If you get too bog, you will be forcing memory swaps (paging) which can negatively impact performance.
Nancy
From: Jorge Biquez
I increase the mmeory and the process run without
problems.. I
increase it to 512M, in the PHP settings was to 32MB.
Is that a good number?