[SunRescue] Memory questions

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:08:51 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury3 at earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:40 AM
>> To: SunRescue List
>> Subject: [SunRescue] Memory questions
>> 
>> 
>> I hope these aren't dumb questions, but what's is the best 
>> way to get maximum
>> memory on a 64MB SS1+ or SS2?
>> My SS2 I use as my webserver has 64MB, but I'm wondering if 
>> there's processes I don't
>> need (powerd for one), where I can gain some extra memory?  
>> Right now I have about
>> 30MB free, but I might run X on it since I just aquirred a 
>> 16" monitor.
>
>man top.  Find out which programs are eating up ram, and remove the ones
>that you don't need.  If you don't recognize something, look for
>documentation on it on that machine, and then online.  If you can't figure
>out what it is, kill it.  If something stops working, you'll know what that
>was.  What's the worst that can happen, a reboot, or maybe a re-install.
>Small price to pay to find out what killing that process does, if you ask
>me.

Hmmm....

Already done that, wasn't sure if anyone else was doing random killings also.

But I was also wondering if any default processes eat up RAM, or maybe modify
some .conf files?

And how do I disable the worthless power daemon, powerd?

Thanks,

Paul