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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Sergey Mkrtchyan <crusoe@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> I am running AMD Duron 750 MHz, 128 RAM with SuSE 10.0. Normally it is
> on acceptable speed, but sometimes (especially when running OpenOffice
> before extremly important presentations) it is quite slow. So what I
> want is to turn off the services which I definetely do not need. As I
> am not much experienced to know what I definetely do not need, I ask
> for your help ;)
>
> First, I do not need any network(at this time) and I haven't got
> printer and scanner, so can I turn off from the chkconfig the
> following services?:
>
> cups (for the printer)
> mdnsd

Can be turned off.

> postfix

Depends on your mail setup - can be turned off.  But then you won't
get root mails.

> sshd

If nobody needs to access the machine remotely: Turn it off.

>
> This is what I feel may be turned off, maybe I missed something...(I
> can post my chkconfig output, if you need)
>
> Besides, do I need six mingettys, can I turn them off from
> /etc/inittab and leave only one?

Yes, they run on the console only, so if one is enough for you.

> Also there is so much files in my /dev, but I haven't got so many
> devices, does it eats resources?

A little bit since /dev is on tmpfs (a ram disk).  But we only create
a minimal set, there's not much too delete and you need to do it at
each boot.

Andreas
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