diff --git a/actix-rt/Cargo.toml b/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
index 10eac079..356c1f09 100644
--- a/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-rt/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,15 +19,16 @@ name = "actix_rt"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [features]
-default = ["macros"]
+default = ["macros", "net"]
 macros = ["actix-macros"]
 io-uring = ["tokio-uring"]
+net = ["tokio/net", "tokio/signal"]
 
 [dependencies]
 actix-macros = { version = "0.2.3", optional = true }
 
 futures-core = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-tokio = { version = "1.13.1", features = ["rt", "net", "parking_lot", "signal", "sync", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.13.1", features = ["rt", "parking_lot", "sync", "time"] }
 
 # runtime for `io-uring` feature
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
diff --git a/actix-rt/src/lib.rs b/actix-rt/src/lib.rs
index 23dd01e8..22002b8f 100644
--- a/actix-rt/src/lib.rs
+++ b/actix-rt/src/lib.rs
@@ -69,17 +69,19 @@ pub use self::arbiter::{Arbiter, ArbiterHandle};
 pub use self::runtime::Runtime;
 pub use self::system::{System, SystemRunner};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "net")]
 pub mod signal {
     //! Asynchronous signal handling (Tokio re-exports).
 
     #[cfg(unix)]
     pub mod unix {
         //! Unix specific signals (Tokio re-exports).
-        pub use tokio::signal::unix::*;
+        // pub use tokio::signal::unix::*;
     }
-    pub use tokio::signal::ctrl_c;
+    // pub use tokio::signal::ctrl_c;
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "net")]
 pub mod net {
     //! TCP/UDP/Unix bindings (mostly Tokio re-exports).
 
diff --git a/actix-rt/src/runtime.rs b/actix-rt/src/runtime.rs
index 557dfcfe..227977fc 100644
--- a/actix-rt/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/actix-rt/src/runtime.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ pub struct Runtime {
     rt: tokio::runtime::Runtime,
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "net")]
 pub(crate) fn default_tokio_runtime() -> io::Result<tokio::runtime::Runtime> {
     tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
         .enable_io()
@@ -19,6 +20,14 @@ pub(crate) fn default_tokio_runtime() -> io::Result<tokio::runtime::Runtime> {
         .build()
 }
 
+#[cfg(not(feature = "net"))]
+pub(crate) fn default_tokio_runtime() -> io::Result<tokio::runtime::Runtime> {
+    tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+        .enable_time()
+        .build()
+}
+
+
 impl Runtime {
     /// Returns a new runtime initialized with default configuration values.
     #[allow(clippy::new_ret_no_self)]