Re: Heavy load of graphics

Ankit Jain
2004-10-07T12:48:52Z

thanks a lot for help

but at this moment i am trying to find out what
services i should stop with this redhat-config service

and also i am confused in 1 more topic. top shows a
col on priority under PRI and also ps -Al shows a col
of priority i.e PRI what is the difference b/w both
becaz both shows different values

rest inline

--- Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net> wrote:
> Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> >thanks
> >
> >this is the output
> >
> >i am using redhat linux 9.0
> >
> >"I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons
> (PCMCIA,
> >ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you
> used
> >chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off
> >unneded services?" as u said...how to do this. i am
> >intrested in closing these services
> >
> >thanks again
> >
> >
> >
> Easiest way to do this is to start an xterm, su to
> root, and type
> "redhat-config-services &". That will give you a
> GUI to select the
> services you wish to run. Depending on how much you
> selected when
> installing, it could be quite a bit.
>
> Runlevel 3 is the Red Hat standard for booting into
> command-line mode,
> and runlevel 5 is the standard graphical login
> level.
>
> The only critical services controlled by this are
> network, syslog,
> xinetd, and nfslock (if you are using NFS). Do not
> disable those unless
> you know what you're doing it for. iptables is the
> firewall control
> (only disable if you are in a very well protected
> network).

do u know any document to know all this?

>
> Most everything else can be turned off.
>
> >[ankit@Ankit ankit]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> > total: used: free: shared: buffers:
> >cached:
> >Mem: 120741888 118902784 1839104 0
> 1695744
> >74162176
> >Swap: 534601728 69509120 465092608
> >MemTotal: 117912 kB
> >MemFree: 1796 kB
> >MemShared: 0 kB
> >Buffers: 1656 kB
> >Cached: 36536 kB
> >SwapCached: 35888 kB
> >Active: 65144 kB
> >ActiveAnon: 37092 kB
> >ActiveCache: 28052 kB
> >Inact_dirty: 4852 kB
> >Inact_laundry: 6728 kB
> >Inact_clean: 1068 kB
> >Inact_target: 15556 kB
> >HighTotal: 0 kB
> >HighFree: 0 kB
> >LowTotal: 117912 kB
> >LowFree: 1796 kB
> >SwapTotal: 522072 kB
> >SwapFree: 454192 kB
> >
> >
>
> 128 MB RAM is marginal for using KDE or Gnome on
> RH9. You can do it
> (that's all I had on my first Linux box) but it's a
> pig.
>
> You've got almost 70 MB in swap - over 30% of your
> total process
> memory. BTW - what kind of computer is it? If it's
> not some oddball
> hardware, your best solution is some RAM. 256 MB is
> enough to make X happy.
>

no X takes more than 70 % of memory with a system with
512 Mb of RAM i had seen that

and also as calculated it shows tyhat system uses
around 99Mb of RAM but it says only 2Mb is free? what
else is using that memory?

thanks

ankit

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