[LBo] Stopping unneeded processes ( Re: QnA Digest, Vol 11, Issue 8)

[Allen]

[Major Snip, Sir!]

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> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:38:59 -0500
> From: Sam Morgan <s.morgan at linuxbasics.org>
> Subject: Re: [LBo] Removing unneeded processes (Re: QnA Digest, Vol
> 	11, Issue 7)
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> just my opinion
> but I think you may be trying to outsmart yourself all for little or nothing 
> gained. let it be as is, you are not going to eliminate much that I saw and 
> there are way to many things there that are interdependent. This is linux, not 
> windows, most of what it's running it is useful to have run. I'm sure the gurus 
> on the list will find one or two things that you may get away with eliminating 
> but I fear the gains will be insignificant.
> 
> You do know that linux runs most of it's available ram, most all the time, don't 
> you? It's just the more efficient thing to do as opposed to windows tendency to 
> shuffle things in and and out of swap. Hard drives mechanics aren't as fast as 
> the speed of the electrons in ram memory.

Yes, I'm aware of this, which is why I wanted to reduce the total 
number of running processes. My sense is that this would speed up 
the loading of programs like OpenOffice, which is quite slow with 
256 Megs. I borrowed another 128 Megs and stuck it in to try and, 
indeed OO loads faster.

Now if I could get my hands on cheeep 256 Meg SDRAM modules, the 
biggest the MB supports, I could make each machine have 768 Megs 
and they would whiz right along.

Thanks,

Allen