Re: [Sheflug] Memory issues

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 August 2002 16:38, Steve Tickle exclaimed:
> Obviously, run as few services as necessary but I wondered if reducing the
> number of virtual terminals that /etc/inittab spawns would have any
> appreciable effect. That would obviously be an easy change to do.

One of the more obvious things is KDE3. Try ensuring that it is running a 
minimum of extraneous effects (fading things, animated dropdowns, things like 
that). 

Secondly, check what your distro starts at bootup. I know SuSE starts Apache 
at boot if you use the help system, along with things like PCMCIA daemons on 
desktop machines, and the like. In short, anything you aren't using and know 
you don't need.

Finally, disabling VTs. As root, edit /etc/init.tab. You should find a load 
of lines along the lines of:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

You can take the top bottom three (4-6) off no trouble. It's probably a good 
idea to leave the others so you have some room to play if X dies. You aren't 
wasting much memory, because it doesn't actually start a shell until login 
has been confirmed. You'll just have three copies of mingetty (very small).

Oh, one last thing. There is an addon for OpenOffice at 

http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/oooqs/

which sits in the KDE tray and helps OpenOffice start somewhat faster. This 
is great if you use it a lot, as it remains in memory. If you don't use it 
very much, then it will just eat into the RAM you might use for something 
else.

HTH

Craig

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>
> Steve
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