[PlanetCCRMA] Re: fedora machine load
plutek@infinity.net
plutek@infinity.net
Wed Jun 15 13:11:02 2005
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