Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-virtual (15 mails)

[PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev+osvm@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxx
                - 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.
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