How to keep unnecessary processes from starting
Charles Howse
chowse at charter.net
Tue Mar 10 13:12:52 UTC 2009
Hi,
I have 8.10-server-i386 running in command-line only.
Surely some of the processes below are unnecessary.
What's the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff?
top - 06:18:40 up 1 day, 13:19, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.21, 0.15
Tasks: 51 total, 1 running, 50 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 4.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.1%wa, 0.2%hi,
1.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 254716k total, 237116k used, 17600k free, 10456k buffers
Swap: 393552k total, 4660k used, 388892k free, 193432k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13029 charles 20 0 2284 964 764 R 7.2 0.4 0:00.10 top
1 root 20 0 2944 1860 544 S 0.0 0.7 0:13.98 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.66 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.76 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 khelper
46 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
kintegrityd/0
48 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.08 kblockd/0
69 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
73 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
115 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:43.12 pdflush
116 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 6:50.68 pdflush
117 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:01.47 kswapd0
162 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
1029 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
ksuspend_usbd
1031 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
1073 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
1075 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
1090 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
1092 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
1919 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:11.16 kjournald
2069 root 16 -4 2176 684 392 S 0.0 0.3 0:04.12 udevd
3272 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:17.16 kjournald
3273 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:57.72 kjournald
3623 root 20 0 1668 496 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3625 root 20 0 1668 504 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3633 root 20 0 1668 504 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3637 root 20 0 1668 500 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3638 root 20 0 1668 496 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3676 syslog 20 0 1884 696 540 S 0.0 0.3 0:02.54 syslogd
3694 root 20 0 1824 528 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.66 dd
3696 klog 20 0 3136 1984 420 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.82 klogd
3714 messageb 20 0 2508 784 588 S 0.0 0.3 0:05.52 dbus-daemon
3745 root 20 0 2052 668 524 S 0.0 0.3 0:14.38 dovecot
3747 root 20 0 9396 2356 1796 S 0.0 0.9 0:05.68 dovecot-auth
3771 daemon 20 0 1940 444 316 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 atd
3796 root 20 0 3284 1016 804 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.32 cron
3806 root 20 0 1668 504 436 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 getty
3811 root 20 0 16076 2500 1596 S 0.0 1.0 0:17.69 console-
kit-dae
5754 proftpd 20 0 5052 1432 616 S 0.0 0.6 0:05.18 proftpd
5856 root 20 0 5180 1052 664 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.02 sshd
11691 root 20 0 8204 2812 2256 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.58 sshd
11698 charles 20 0 8340 1560 984 S 0.0 0.6 0:01.86 sshd
11699 charles 20 0 5472 2928 1424 S 0.0 1.1 0:02.08 bash
12220 root 20 0 9396 2384 1852 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.22 dovecot-
auth
12222 dovecot 20 0 3424 1556 1288 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.06 pop3-login
12623 dovecot 20 0 3424 1552 1288 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.06 pop3-login
12994 dovecot 20 0 3424 1552 1288 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.06 pop3-login
13018 charles 20 0 4248 1496 1056 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.10
daily_report.sh
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Thanks,
Charles
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