> I have 27 services running (most of which I have no idea what they are), > is this normal? > > Are there any got'yas that I should know about and be looking for? > > How do I get a basic list of the services that are running?
chkconfig --list service --status-all > Below is my top output, does this look as expected? > > 11:30:04 up 1 day, 17:55, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.36, 0.47 > 84 processes: 80 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 20.3% user 1.3% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 78.2% idle > Mem: 125992k av, 117680k used, 8312k free, 0k shrd, 4480k buff > 85656k actv, 148k in_d, 1200k in_c > Swap: 257000k av, 89808k used, 167192k free 56568k cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND > 10236 root 15 0 24396 9.9M 1188 S 1.7 8.0 665:37 0 X > 12325 don 15 0 7788 7216 4928 R 0.9 5.7 0:03 0 kdeinit > 12476 root 16 0 1104 1104 848 R 0.3 0.8 0:00 0 top > 10362 don 15 0 4628 3240 2140 S 0.1 2.5 0:08 0 kdeinit > 10366 don 15 0 5712 4164 2532 S 0.1 3.3 0:45 0 kdeinit > 10419 don 15 0 5012 3564 2180 S 0.1 2.8 0:04 0 evoluti well it looks like you typed the right letters in the right order. It is an interactive tool. do something that takes an annoyingly long time and see what it says. before you do that use the P key while the xterm has the focus so that it sorts processes by cPu usage. you can use the H key to get help.
