Re: [linux-audio-user] Unnecessary Services

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Unnecessary Services
From: tim hall (tech_AT_glastonburymusic.org.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 29 2004 - 22:14:30 EET


Last Wednesday 29 December 2004 17:38, Lee Revell was like:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:25 -0700, Hans Fugal wrote:
> > > How about posting the output of "ps ax", and we can tell you which ones
> > > you probably don't need.
> >
> > Or even better, "pstree". At least, I find this output easier to work
> > with when pruning a system.
>
> Cool, I didn't know about that. "ps axf" is another good one.

'pstree' is new on me too, thanks.
Just for comparison's sake here's mine:

 $ ps fax
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
    1 ? S 0:00 init [5]
    2 ? S 0:01 [keventd]
    3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 ? S 2:46 [kswapd]
    5 ? S 0:00 [bdflush]
    6 ? S 0:00 [kupdated]
  106 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  220 ? S 0:00 [kcopyd]
  260 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  261 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  262 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  263 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  264 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  265 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  266 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  268 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  269 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  270 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  271 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  272 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
  368 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
 1008 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon-1 --system
 1314 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
 1482 ? S 0:00 [kapmd]
  474 ? S 0:02 /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 13
 2093 tty1 Ss 0:00 -bash
 2113 tty1 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
 2126 tty1 S+ 0:00 \_ xinit /home/tim/.xinitrc
-- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
 2127 ? R 0:03 \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
 2130 tty1 S 0:01 \_ openbox
 2137 tty1 S 0:02 \_ fbpanel
 2140 tty1 S 0:02 \_ gkrellm
 2159 tty1 S 0:03 gnome-terminal
 2162 tty1 S 0:00 \_ gnome-pty-helper
 2163 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ bash
 2183 pts/0 R+ 0:00 | \_ ps fax
 2164 tty1 S 0:00 \_ gnome-terminal
 2165 tty1 S 0:00 \_ gnome-terminal
 2161 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-server
--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=17

/etc/rc5.d $ ls
K10sysklogd K20dictd K20inetd K20snort K89atd K99kdm
S20irqbalance S20xdebconfigurator S99stop-bootlogd
K11anacron K20exim4 K20lpd K20ssh K89cron S18portmap
S20makedev S20xfs
K11klogd K20fam K20mzscheme K20xprint K91apache S20alsa
S20realtime S21aumix
K14ppp K20gpm K20postgresql K21nfs-common K91apache2
S20cfengine2 S20rsync S99linuxlogo
K20cupsys K20hddtemp K20samba K89anacron K99gdm S20dbus-1
S20timidity S99rmnologin

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Obviously I can't print or do networking stuff in this runlevel and I do wonder whether I've gone too far in disabling the kernel logging daemons. Rosegarden4 likes it. :-)

Any thoughts welcomed.

tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk


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