If you are not using that machine as a mail server, then you can definately get rid of sendmail. Depending on your networking needs, you may also be able to get rid of portmap and nfs. That should free up some memory for you. Victor On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Stuart Hall wrote:
I am in the process of writing a program that will time slot cars around my basement track for Linux. In doing this, it is becoming apparent that I need to have pretty good access to my parallel port - so much so that not many other processes can be running at the same time.
I have a minimum install, plus a little networking, installed on my 486-33 box w/ 16 meg ram. However, when doing a "top" last night, I see that almost 15 meg of ram is already being used by other processes - one of which is sendmail.
I am obviously going to have to get rid of sendmail, smb, nfs and any other services running on this machine. Are there any other suggestions for what I should be looking for to delete? When I did this "top", I was running in console mode with one user (root) only. There was nothing that appeared to be taking more than 4% of memory - in fact most of the items were taking 0.0 memory.
Any suggestions on how I can free up this machine would be appreciated. I need to get it so it is as "fast" and light as a DOS install.
Thanks, Stuart
-- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732
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