You should disable NFS on your host. the nfs daemons are launched several
times in parallel to
speedup the connection when clients are numerous. Since you don't share
anything via NFS you should
not launch any of these.
mingetty are the process running on tty1, tty2 to tty6 to show you a
prompt in the virtual consoles
(Alt-F1 to Alt-F6). If you log in via xdm (or gdm or kdm, that is just
the same: login under X
directly), you don't need so many. You could stop some of them by editing
/etc/inittab by that
is useless since these are not consuming much [anyway keep at least one
mingetty on tty1].
hope this helps
pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rik Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RAM usage questions
>
>
>
> A few questions about RAM usage (as observed using top) on my
> Redhat 6.0
> machine:
>
> 1) Can I assume it's not normal for X to expand to the point that it's
> consuming 26MB RAM? That happened after experimenting with
> several different
> Enlightenment themes.
>
> 2) Is there a reason why top shows 6 instances of mingetty
> and 8 instances
> of nsfd running? Not a lot of RAM being used by these - all 6
> mingettys show
> Size: 384 and all the nsfd's show Size: 0, but I just wonder
> why each one
> shows up so many times. The only thing that differentiates
> the instances is
> the PID.
>
> On the subject of nsfd: I'm not running Linux as a server,
> the box is simply
> another computer on the network here (the _only_ Linux box on
> the network).
> Do I even _need_ NSF?
>
> --
> Rik Osborne
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <http://www.phase42.net>
>
