[Plug] Streamlining Linux

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

I just installed RH 5.2 on my system and it's eating up quite a bit of 
memory. About 1/2 of my 64M on start-up. I'd like to streamline this and get 
rid of all the unnecessary crap that's getting loaded. What I've done so far 
is to switch Apache to run from inetd so that I don't have a couple of 
servers running all the time, eating up my memory, when I get very very few 
hits (to see why, check out laktar.dyndns.org if it's up). I'm also thinking 
of going through ps ax and checking out what I'm actually using and what's 
merely superflous (looks like NFS is gonna take a hit until I can get my LAN 
up and running). It appears though that some daemons spawn a few excess 
child processes on start-up, which is fine if you're serving amazon.com, but 
which I don't particularly need and don't necessarily know how to get rid 
of. For instance, what's mingetty of which there are 5? Well, any pointers 
to good resources on cutting down on unnecessary stuff meant for higher end 
computers, any suggestions as to how to get a lot of my memory back, or any 
identifications of processes that are probably useless on my system would be 
appreciated.

Thanks!

BTW, here's the collected output of ps ax (I trust nobody will try and use 
this info to crack my system as: "Nothing important is on my system"):

 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
   1  ?  S    0:03 init
   2  ?  SW   0:00 (kflushd)
   3  ?  SW<  0:14 (kswapd)
   4  ?  SW   0:00 (md_thread)
   5  ?  SW   0:00 (md_thread)
  48  ?  S    0:00 /sbin/kerneld
 203  ?  S    0:00 syslogd
 212  ?  S    0:00 klogd
 235  ?  S    0:00 crond
 246  ?  S    0:00 inetd
 257  ?  SW   0:00 (snmpd)
 278  ?  S    0:00 named
 289  ?  S    0:00 routed
 300  ?  SW   0:00 (lpd)
 313  ?  S    0:00 nwserv
 319  ?  SW   0:00 (nwbind)
 324  ?  S    0:00 rpc.mountd
 333  ?  S    0:00 rpc.nfsd
 344  ?  SW   0:00 (rpc.rusersd)
 366  ?  S    0:00 rwhod
 369  ?  SW   0:00 (ncpserv)
 380  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/amd -a /.automount -l syslog -c 1000 /net 
/etc/amd
 393  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
 394  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
 395  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
 396  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
 412  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file 
/etc/auto.misc
 429  a0 S    0:00 gpm -t ms
 463  ?  SW   0:00 (mcserv)
 474  ?  SW   0:00 (smbd)
 483  ?  S    0:00 nmbd -D
 500   2 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
 501   3 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
 502   4 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
 503   4 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
 504   4 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
 506  ?  S    0:01 update (bdflush)
 573  ?  SW   0:00 (ifup-ppp)
 580  ?  SW   0:00 (pppd)
1872   1 S    0:00 -bash
1888   6 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
1890   5 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
1895   1 R    0:00 ps ax
 189  ?  SW   0:00 (portmap)
 224  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
 355  ?  SW   0:00 (rpc.rwalld)
 444  ?  SW   0:00 (postmaster)

       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


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