i'm 'trimming' a headless-server Xen guest's memory/process usage. checking top, i note, PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND ... 1369 root 20 0 9324 2188 1436 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 console-kit-daemon ... reading @, http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse11/consolekit.html "ConsoleKit is a system daemon for tracking what users are logged into the system and how they interact with the computer (e.g. which keyboard and mouse they use)." as i'm on a headless guest (@ a hosted VPS ...), it's not clear why at all console-kit-daemon's needed, or launched in the 1st place. as the package list referenced above includes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 7 02:21 /usr/sbin/rcconsolekit -> /etc/init.d/consolekit i thought i could simply turn the service off. but, chkconfig --list | grep -i console (empty) checking, ls -al /etc/init.d/consolekit /bin/ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/consolekit: No such file or directory given that i've lsb_release -d Description: openSUSE 11.1 (i586) rpm -qa | grep ConsoleKit ConsoleKit-0.2.10-60.27.1 checking, rpm -qa --changelog ConsoleKit | grep -A1 -B1 script * Fri Sep 26 2008 hmacht@suse.de - remove rc-script. ConsoleKit is activated on demand with D-Bus system activation (bnc#428228) @, Bug 428228 - consolekit should not have an rc script https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428228 simply suggests, consolekit should not have an rc script I think, i think it will just be activated when needed these days and there looks like a potential race between consolekit and haldaemon currently because of the startproc usage. Fedora seems to not have an rc script for it currently. leaving "when needed" a bit ... unclear. if i killproc console-kit-daemon on the running Xen guest, there *seems* to be no deliterious effect -- some resource is simply freed up ... any insights as to if/why it's required/launched for a Xen guest, &/or how to disable it would be appreciated. at the very list, a pointer to some clear documentation on it would help ... thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+help@opensuse.org