Hi list! Many of you have probably noticed that openSUSE by default installs (and starts) a number of applications that many people do not need. Examples are the sshd (even started on desktop systems...), Kinternet and the like. If these unneeded programs get removed, we can save a couple of MB of RAM and also make booting faster.
I tried this with the following programs that are started by default, but unnecessary on _my_ system: kinternet, sshd, klipper, smpppd, susewatcher. On a freshly booted system, memory usage went down from 87.8 to 82.7 megabytes. This means I can save 5.1MB of RAM. On other systems you will of course have different results because the user may have a different setup. So I think we should have a small tool that asks the user a few questions about his system and disables/uninstalls the programs in question. These few MB could make quite a difference for people with little RAM! Another candidate on my list is portmap. It is needed for importing NFS file systems, which not that many people do. I'm just wondering if it is also necessary for anything else that a user might want? Maybe other programs could be disabled as well. Feel free to suggest one. Cheers nordi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
