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Re: freeing up memory in Linux <OFFTOPIC>

• Posted by Jeffrey Fielding <JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET> Mar 27, 2000
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I have similar problems on my two linux computers with 16 MB RAM.
Stoping daemons doesn't seem to help very much, and with some swap
space, I haven't had trouble running out of memory and performance is
pretty good for most things (though Netscape runs rather slowly).
Here's a list from Linux Firewalls by Robert L. Ziegler:
amd    The NFS automount daemon.
arpwatch    Logs and builds a database of Ethernet address/IP address
pairings it sees on a LAN interface
autofs    Enables the automounter ( I believe this is seperate from the
kernel automounter - this is for NFS)
bootparamd    Boot parameter server
dhcpd    DHCP server
gated    Gateway routing daemon
httpd    Apache web server
inet        Super server for several services - you probably want this
innd    News server
linuxconf    Lets you use Linuxconf - you probably want this if you have
Red Hat
lpd    Print server
mars-nwe    file/print server for Novell networks
mcserv    Midnight Commander file server
named    DNS server
netfs    mounts NFS, samba, and netware networked file systems
network    configures the network - you need this
nfs    nfs services
nscd    name switch cache daemon
portmap    RPC portmap manager
postgresql    SQL database server
routed    Automatically updates kernel routing tables
rstatd    Collect and provide info on other machines on the network
fuserd    Remote user locator service
rwalld    Lets you write messages to the terminals of everyone logged
onto the machine
rwhod    provides info on who is logged on, what they're doing etc.
sendmail    Local mail service
smb    Samba file/print sharing
snmpd    Simple Network Management Daemon
squid    Squid Internet Object Cache
syslog    You need this
xfs    X Windows font server - you need this for X
xntpd    Local network time server
ypbind    runs on NIS clients
yppasswdd    NIS password server
ypserv    NIS master server

Jeff Fielding

Mike Hurley wrote:

> Anybody know how to free up memory in Linux?  My
> machine has 20Mb RAM, and under 1Mb free at all
> times...usually around 600Kb.  I'm using kernel
> 2.2.10.  What daemons do what and would they help free
> up space?  I tried limiting my consoles to just 2 in
> 'inittab', but that didn't help.
>
> Any help is appreciated:
> Mike Hurley
>
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