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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