--- chuck gelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> >thanks a lot for help
> >
> >but at this moment i am trying to find out what
> >services i should stop with this redhat-config
> service
> >
> >and also i am confused in 1 more topic. top shows a
> >col on priority under PRI and also ps -Al shows a
> col
> >of priority i.e PRI what is the difference b/w both
> >becaz both shows different values
> >
> >rest inline
> >
> > --- Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Ankit Jain wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>thanks
> >>>
> >>>this is the output
> >>>
> >>>i am using redhat linux 9.0
> >>>
> >>>"I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons
> >>>
> >>>
> >>(PCMCIA,
> >>
> >>
> >>>ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you
> >>>
> >>>
> >>used
> >>
> >>
> >>>chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off
> >>>unneded services?" as u said...how to do this. i
> am
> >>>intrested in closing these services
> >>>
> >>>thanks again
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Easiest way to do this is to start an xterm, su to
> >>root, and type
> >>"redhat-config-services &". That will give you a
> >>GUI to select the
> >>services you wish to run. Depending on how much
> you
> >>selected when
> >>installing, it could be quite a bit.
> >>
> >>Runlevel 3 is the Red Hat standard for booting
> into
> >>command-line mode,
> >>and runlevel 5 is the standard graphical login
> >>level.
> >>
> >>The only critical services controlled by this are
> >>network, syslog,
> >>xinetd, and nfslock (if you are using NFS). Do
> not
> >>disable those unless
> >>you know what you're doing it for. iptables is
> the
> >>firewall control
> >>(only disable if you are in a very well protected
> >>network).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >do u know any document to know all this?
> >
> >
> >
> >>Most everything else can be turned off.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ankit]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> >>> total: used: free: shared: buffers:
>
> >>>cached:
> >>>Mem: 120741888 118902784 1839104 0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>1695744
> >>
> >>
> >>>74162176
> >>>Swap: 534601728 69509120 465092608
> >>>MemTotal: 117912 kB
> >>>MemFree: 1796 kB
> >>>MemShared: 0 kB
> >>>Buffers: 1656 kB
> >>>Cached: 36536 kB
> >>>SwapCached: 35888 kB
> >>>Active: 65144 kB
> >>>ActiveAnon: 37092 kB
> >>>ActiveCache: 28052 kB
> >>>Inact_dirty: 4852 kB
> >>>Inact_laundry: 6728 kB
> >>>Inact_clean: 1068 kB
> >>>Inact_target: 15556 kB
> >>>HighTotal: 0 kB
> >>>HighFree: 0 kB
> >>>LowTotal: 117912 kB
> >>>LowFree: 1796 kB
> >>>SwapTotal: 522072 kB
> >>>SwapFree: 454192 kB
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>128 MB RAM is marginal for using KDE or Gnome on
> >>RH9. You can do it
> >>(that's all I had on my first Linux box) but it's
> a
> >>pig.
> >>
> >>You've got almost 70 MB in swap - over 30% of your
> >>total process
> >>memory. BTW - what kind of computer is it? If
> it's
> >>not some oddball
> >>hardware, your best solution is some RAM. 256 MB
> is
> >>enough to make X happy.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >no X takes more than 70 % of memory with a system
> with
> >512 Mb of RAM i had seen that
> >
> >and also as calculated it shows tyhat system uses
> >around 99Mb of RAM but it says only 2Mb is free?
> what
> >else is using that memory?
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >ankit
> >
> >
> Dear Ankit:
>
> I am not sure what your goal is.
:) well my goal is to increase available RAM by tuning
the sytem
11:08:00 up 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.21,
0.13, 0.10
60 processes: 57 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0
stopped
CPU states: 0.9% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice
0.0% iowait 99.0% idle
Mem: 117912k av, 116684k used, 1228k free,
0k shrd, 1660k buff
65128k actv, 4760k in_d,
1644k in_c
Swap: 522072k av, 40556k used, 481516k free
32240k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM
TIME CPU COMMAND
3598 root 15 0 139M 5316 872 R 0.7 4.5
0:18 0 X
3790 ankit 15 0 1048 1048 848 R 0.1 0.8
0:00 0 top
1 root 15 0 88 60 40 S 0.0 0.0
0:03 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 35 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/DMA
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/Normal
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/HighMem
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kupdated
11 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
110 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 khubd
3180 root 15 0 188 156 112 S 0.0 0.1
0:00 0 syslogd
3184 root 15 0 56 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 klogd
3202 rpc 15 0 72 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 portmap
3221 rpcuser 25 0 76 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 rpc.statd
3288 root 24 0 52 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 apmd
3325 root 25 0 240 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 sshd
if u will calculate this it will show very less
compared to qhat it displays. becaz it displays
only1.5 Mb to be free
thanks
ankit
> Is it to increase available RAM by 'tuning' your
> system,
> rather than by installing more RAM memory?
> I think that 'top' will display running programs and
> sort them by the memory they consume
> (or try to comsume).
> What programs or services are installed in your
> setup
> and how much memory are they consuming?
> You probably need look no futher than the 'top ten'.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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