Intel(r) Core?2 Duo Processors"

Fri Oct 13 21:13:03 UTC 2006

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
>> I wish I had a good answer for you, since it's something I'd also like
>> to know. I usually just look for busy processes with top or ps.
>>
>> KDE has a performance tool (ksysguard) that is loaded with stuff (too
>> much stuff). I'm sure Gnome has something equivalent. The problem is
>> knowing what parts are interesting.
>>
>> iostat, vmstat and sar are tools that might be useful, but the
>> learning curve is a little steep.
>>
>> Maybe a performance guru on the list could jump in with some help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
> 
> Some of the interesting things in KSystemGuard are Apache2, SSHD,
> something called hald-*, getty, and others. I suppose that I could
> google them all individually, but I'd actually prefer if perhaps
> someone could post to the list their KSystemGuard entries. Anything I
> have they they don't I would investigate first. I don't see a way to
> copy the table in KSystemGuard, but I'm near certain that there is a
> way.
> 
> Knotify, SSH, and Apache I can do without- how to disable them, so
> they will not start up automatically when I restart the system?
> Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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I don't know how to export the output of ksysguard, but I've attached 
the output of "ps -ef > file" from my system. This system probably 
isn't a good example of a Fedora box since it's old and hacked by me.

I usually use chkconfig to disable services, but there is a gui 
"system->services management" that lets you do this stuff.

as root,

chkconfig httpd off
chkconfig sshd off

Don't know about Knotify, it's part of KDE so maybe there is a KDE 
menu that can stop it (maybe it can't be stopped).

Regards,

John

 > ps -ef

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 init [3]
root         2     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         3     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [events/0]
root         4     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [khelper]
root         5     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kthread]
root         8     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root         9     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kseriod]
root        35     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kapmd]
root        56     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root        57     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root        58     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd0]
root        59     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [aio/0]
root       169     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kpsmoused]
root       178     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root       506     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 minilogd
root       592     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 udevd
root      1052     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [khubd]
root      1215     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root      1224     5  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root      1562     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q 
-cf /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf 
/var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0
root      1610     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd 
/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
dbus      1745     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
root      1755     1  0 13:23 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
xfs       1913     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
root      1937     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 login -- jwendel
jwendel   1938  1937  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 -bash
jwendel   1976  1938  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
jwendel   1987  1976  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 xinit 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc --
root      1988  1987  6 13:25 ?        00:03:02 X :0
jwendel   2018  1987  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
jwendel   2040     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
jwendel   2043     1  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch 
--exit-with-session /home/jwendel/.Xclients
jwendel   2044     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork 
--print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
jwendel   2084     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent -s 
--daemon
jwendel   2095     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit Running...
jwendel   2098     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 dcopserver --nosid
jwendel   2100  2095  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 klauncher [kdeinit] 
--new-startup
jwendel   2102     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:01 kded --new-startup
jwendel   2109  2018  0 13:25 tty1     00:00:00 kwrapper ksmserver
jwendel   2111     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 ksmserver
jwendel   2112  2095  0 13:25 ?        00:00:01 kwin
jwendel   2114     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:01 kdesktop
jwendel   2118     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:08 kicker
jwendel   2129     1  0 13:26 ?        00:00:00 kaccess
jwendel   2132     1  0 13:26 ?        00:00:00 kalarmd --autostart
jwendel   2134  2095  0 13:26 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/bin/thunderbird
jwendel   2145  2134  0 13:26 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.7/run-mozilla.sh 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.7/thunderbird-bin
jwendel   2150  2145  1 13:26 ?        00:00:40 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.7/thunderbird-bin
jwendel   2155     1  0 13:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 21
jwendel   2242     1  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 knotify [kdeinit]
jwendel   2287  2095  0 13:56 ?        00:00:00 kio_file [kdeinit] 
file /tmp/ksocket-jwendel/klauncher1fLCyb.slave-socket 
/tmp/ksocket-jwendel/kcontrolOxmy9b.slave-socket
jwendel   2428  2095  1 14:08 ?        00:00:01 konsole
jwendel   2429  2428  0 14:08 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/bash
jwendel   2451  2429  0 14:09 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef