[LUGSB] processes

[Henry Lee]

hey, Nick, thanks for your info. do you have a listing of all the processes 
that are safe to kill, or some thing like that?
thanks!
-henry

>From: "Nick Horvath" <nhorvath at ic.sunysb.edu>
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>To simply kill a process you can just type kill and then the pid of the
>process (can be found in top or other system monitor programs) to use kill
>on processes you do not own you will need to become root and then kill 
>them.
>To solve your problem of these excess programs (which I assume start with
>Red Hat 9) you are going to want to edit your /etc/rc.d/rc#.d directories
>(the # is replaced with a number 0-6 which represents the runlevel). You 
>can
>go through these directories and remove the links that you are sure are
>things you don't need. You should know what you are removing though because
>if you remove the wrong things you can cause your system to lose
>functionality or not boot altogether. You will need to remove things from
>all the different runlevel directories. Let me know if you need more help.
>-Nick
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:lugsb-bounces at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu] On Behalf Of Henry Lee
>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:53 AM
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>Subject: [LUGSB] processes
>
>does anyone know how to stop unnecessary processes in linux? i have red hat
>linux 9 on a laptop, every time i start up red hat, it will have about 
>230MB
>
>worth of processes running (i checked using system monitor) how do i kill
>some processes to make the system more efficient?
>thanks!
>-henry
>
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