How to keep unnecessary processes from starting
Charles Howse
chowse at charter.net
Tue Mar 10 18:46:56 UTC 2009
On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net>
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Actually... that already is a clean list without any useless stuff
> running.
> Unless you want to lose your mailserver, the only thing you could
> remove were some of the getty's (but then you lose some consoles)
Mark, Brian, thanks for the replies! I guess I was thinking that the
processes that started with k had something to do with a gui that had
been installed without my knowledge.
A little rtfm would have been in order before I posted, eh? ;-)
Thanks again, I'll not fix it if it's not broken!
charles at shemp:~$ ps auxwwf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00
[kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:08 \_
[events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[khelper]
root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[kintegrityd/0]
root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:02 \_
[kblockd/0]
root 69 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[cqueue]
root 73 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[kseriod]
root 115 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar07 0:43 \_
[pdflush]
root 116 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar07 6:52 \_
[pdflush]
root 117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 2:01 \_
[kswapd0]
root 162 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[aio/0]
root 1029 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[ksuspend_usbd]
root 1031 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[khubd]
root 1073 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[ata/0]
root 1075 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[ata_aux]
root 1090 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[scsi_eh_0]
root 1092 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:00 \_
[scsi_eh_1]
root 1919 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:12 \_
[kjournald]
root 3272 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:17 \_
[kjournald]
root 3273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar07 0:57 \_
[kjournald]
root 1 0.0 0.7 2944 1860 ? Ss Mar07 0:14 /sbin/
init
root 2069 0.0 0.2 2176 684 ? S<s Mar07 0:04 /sbin/
udevd --daemon
root 3623 0.0 0.1 1668 496 tty4 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty4
root 3625 0.0 0.1 1668 504 tty5 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty5
root 3633 0.0 0.1 1668 504 tty2 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty2
root 3637 0.0 0.1 1668 500 tty3 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty3
root 3638 0.0 0.1 1668 496 tty6 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty6
syslog 3676 0.0 0.2 1884 696 ? Ss Mar07 0:04 /sbin/
syslogd -u syslog
root 3694 0.0 0.2 1824 528 ? S Mar07 0:00 /bin/
dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg
klog 3696 0.0 0.7 3136 1984 ? Ss Mar07 0:01 /sbin/
klogd -P /var/run/klogd/kmsg
104 3714 0.0 0.3 2508 784 ? Ss Mar07 0:09 /bin/
dbus-daemon --system
root 3745 0.0 0.2 2052 668 ? Ss Mar07 0:25 /usr/
sbin/dovecot
root 3747 0.0 0.9 9396 2356 ? S Mar07 0:10 \_
dovecot-auth
dovecot 19357 0.0 0.6 3424 1552 ? S 11:33 0:00 \_
pop3-login
dovecot 19385 0.0 0.6 3424 1556 ? S 11:48 0:00 \_
pop3-login
dovecot 19678 0.0 0.6 3424 1556 ? S 13:33 0:00 \_
pop3-login
daemon 3771 0.0 0.1 1940 444 ? Ss Mar07 0:00 /usr/
sbin/atd
root 3796 0.0 0.3 3284 1016 ? Ss Mar07 0:02 /usr/
sbin/cron
root 3806 0.0 0.1 1668 504 tty1 Ss+ Mar07 0:00 /sbin/
getty 38400 tty1
root 3811 0.0 1.0 16200 2608 ? Ssl Mar07 0:39 /usr/
sbin/console-kit-daemon
proftpd 5754 0.0 0.5 5052 1432 ? Ss Mar07 0:10
proftpd: (accepting connections)
root 5856 0.0 0.4 5180 1052 ? Ss Mar07 0:00 /usr/
sbin/sshd
root 19681 0.1 1.1 8204 2812 ? Ss 13:35 0:00 \_
sshd: charles [priv]
charles 19688 0.0 0.6 8204 1548 ? S 13:36 0:00
\_ sshd: charles at pts/0
charles 19689 0.4 1.1 5472 2936 pts/0 Ss 13:36
0:02 \_ -bash
charles 19769 0.0 0.3 2616 976 pts/0 R+ 13:44
0:00 \_ ps auxwwf
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