On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> timothy stone wrote:
>
> > Hi again -- How do i check to see how many modules are runnign, and how do i
> > turnr them off, please?
> >
> > tim
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not an expert but I am a GUI fan (except the cases I HAVE TO edit
> the scripts) and I know you can get information if you go in "Control
> Panel".
Editing can be done just as easily in X as in console mode, or do you not mean
it that way.?
> In Runlevel editor you can see what services are started when you start
> Linux.
ps -ax shows that at any command prompt.
> Usually it starts in Runlevel 3, if you didn'choosed at install the
All linux distro's start in runlevel 3, its just that thesedays one is asked
during the install process if one wishes to start up X upon booting there for
another runlevel is set in /etc/inittab. (See my further comments below).
> option to start directly in X (in this case is Runlevel 5).
This is not quite correct, Slackware for instance does not use runlevel 5 for X
its runlevel 4, Confusing is'nt it.
> Read the help. It explains how Runlevel editor works. You have to know
> the meaning of the services (read the manual pages) to know what to
> eliminate.
An easy way out, al be it NOT the best way but is the easiest, cd to
the runlevel directory, for example redhat is /etc/rc.d/rc3.d {rc5.d}
simply remove the symbolic link for each process you dont want to start at
boottime, when doing this i suggest you create a directory called org under the
runlevel directory in question and copy the link to that directory, then you
will be able to copy the link back if and when its needed.
Yes you can do it via linuxconf or any other GUI progam, but realy we are
taking Linux here not GUI arnt we.?
>
> In Kernel config (a button with a tooth) you can see the modules used.
> You can add and eliminate.
Not exachtly, you cant remove a module while its in use, if kmod or kerneld
is running, (ls -al | grep kmod or kerneld) to check; they should remove the
module automaticly when its no longer required after X amount of time.
Check with lsmod you should see "(autoclean)" listed at the end of most lines,
that means the module will be cleaned up by kmod or kerneld.
>
> If you use Gnome (which is the default for RH) there is a tool to
> monitor the memory, you can see the amount of memory used by different
> programs.
top is the tool used in console mode, you should be able to use most gnome
tools under kde there should be a gnome pannel lying under the kde-menu button.
and visa-versa.
> I know Gnome was using 30M of my 32M RAM. So I gave up Gnome and I used
> Afterstep. It saves about 16M of memory. You can put Gnome and KDE
> applications under Afterstep if you keep "core" and "libs" belonging to
> Gnome and KDE. For example I use kppp (from KDE) to dial, GnoRPM to
> manage rpm, my own backgrounds (modified to the proper format by GIMP),
> under Afterstep.
I just tryed all 3 window managers, but none of them use 30 megs, so how many
processes were running under gnome when you saw 30 megs used.?
> So I made a desktop salad on my own taste making a ballance between the
> visual effects and the memory used. You can't do such a thing in
> Windows.
>
> I still say you can not run StarOffice quickly without 64M of RAM.
>
> I hope other people will give you better advices, especially from
> command line, which I am also interested in.
>
> Returning to the speed, I compared AdobePhotoshop4.0 with GIMP using a
> bmp of 1.7M. GIMP is loading faster. The time to work is quite equal,
> but difficult to compare because the features have different names. The
> usual features(with the same name in both programs) are so fast that I
> could not measure precisely.
To do accurate mesurments so that others can compare times, you would need to
say how much memory you have in total, disk access time, 'hdparm' will show
that, cpu type and speed and of course what else is running at that time as
that can have conciquences on memory use.
In actual fact there are special benchmark programs to do it all for you.
One of which can be found at the following URL, i have not used it or visited
the page, its just one which poped up upon a search request on www.tucows.com
http://www.sof.ch/dan/qscheme/index-e.html
There are of course many others.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
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