[PlanetCCRMA] Re: fedora machine load

[plutek at infinity.net]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano writes: 

> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 09:00, Peter Lutek wrote:
>> greetings! 
>> 
>> a while ago, i switched from ccrma/fc2 to gentoo on my laptop, because of  
>> the richer available repository of non-audio packages, and also the  
>> ability to better customize the environment to a given set of hardware. i  
>> am currently considering re-examining ccrma (on fc3), because i want to  
>> spend more time making music, and less time doing sys admin. 
>> 
>> i still have my ccrma/fc2 hard drive, and have recently compared it to my  
>> gentoo install, which is on a separate drive. here are some observations  
>> (both with nothing running except the ion3 window manager and top): 
>> 
>> ccrma/fc2: 62 processes, 218 Mb RAM used
>> gentoo: 40 processes, 54 Mb RAM used 
>> 
>> yes, i realize this is a simplistic comparison, but i have to think twice  
>> about moving back to a system which uses almost 1/4 of my available RAM  
>> when it is IDLE (i have 1Gb RAM in this machine). 
>> 
>> so, questions:
>> is fc3 better in this respect than fc2?
> 
> Number of processes running after a stock install? I don't know,
> probably not that different. The numbers 62 and 40 don't say much about
> what is going on on both machines. A list of _which_ processes are
> running on both would be a better start. Most probably a lot of the
> processes and services in the fedora machine can be stopped safely, it
> all depends on what you need (and this is something you would do once,
> of course).  
> 
>> do any of you have an fc3 installation with an IDLE load as low as my  
>> gentoo system?
> 
> Send us a list of the processes you are running, and/or what services
> are active:
>   /sbin/chkconfig --list

ok... here it is (from a new FC3 install, running twm for now): 

bluetooth      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
cpuspeed       	0:off	1:on	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
vncserver      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
netfs          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
mdmpd          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
anacron        	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
network        	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
gpm            	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
smartd         	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
netplugd       	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
mDNSResponder  	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
mdmonitor      	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
ypbind         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
psacct         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
winbind        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
rpcidmapd      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
rpcgssd        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
iptables       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
xinetd         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
rtirq          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:off	5:on	6:off
nfslock        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
messagebus     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
ntpd           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
diskdump       	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
nfs            	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
acpid          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
rhnsd          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
nscd           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
cups           	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
autofs         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
saslauthd      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
NetworkManager 	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
yum            	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
sshd           	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
kudzu          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
xfs            	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
haldaemon      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
pcmcia         	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
apmd           	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
portmap        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
microcode_ctl  	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
crond          	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
rpcsvcgssd     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
nifd           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
readahead      	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:on	6:off
rtload         	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
atd            	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
irqbalance     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
netdump        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
irda           	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
syslog         	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
readahead_early	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:on	6:off
cups-config-daemon	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
isdn           	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
xinetd based services:
	krb5-telnet:	off
	echo-udp:	off
	eklogin:	off
	chargen:	off
	daytime:	off
	chargen-udp:	off
	time-udp:	off
	time:	off
	daytime-udp:	off
	echo:	off
	klogin:	off
	gssftp:	off
	cups-lpd:	off
	rsync:	off
	kshell:	off 


thanks! 

 -p