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[John Wendel]

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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A little more info ...

hald-* is a service that watches for newly mounted hardware and 
automates the process. I don't run it, but most sane people do.

getty is (are) the processes that let you login on a plain (not X) 
console. You want to keep this. You can tweak the number by editing 
/etc/inittab where the 6 gettys get started. I only start 2.

Regards,

John