[mohaa] recommended settings for server?

[Nathan Peters]

I turned off sendmail and anything else I didn't need a while ago.  But, I
have to have SSH telnet on and also FTP on for sure.  Here's what I get with
what you told me to do:

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 init
root         2     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [keventd]
root         3     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root         4     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd]
root         5     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [bdflush]
root         6     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [kupdated]
root         7     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [jfsIO]
root         8     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [jfsCommit]
root         9     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [jfsSync]
root        10     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root       314     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 syslogd -m 0
root       318     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 klogd -x
root       338     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root       348     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile
/var/
nobody     358     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 proftpd: (accepting
connections)
root       393     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 crond
daemon     411     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root       424     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m
/var/run/
root       438     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/libexec/userm
root       445     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/libexec/webmi
root       448     1  0 Dec16 vc/0     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 ttys/0
root       449     1  0 Dec16 vc/1     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 ttys/1
root       450     1  0 Dec16 vc/2     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 ttys/2
root       451     1  0 Dec16 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 ttys/2
root       452     1  0 Dec16 tts/0    00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 serial/0
nathan    2339     1 34 16:31 ?        00:03:39 ./mohaa_lnxded +set
dedicated 1
root      2813   338  0 17:49 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      2816  2813  0 17:49 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
root      2854  2816  0 17:49 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef

Can you tell anything?  Thanks for taking time to help me out.  I appreciate
it!

Nathan - A.K.A. [BASHYOU] SNiPeS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eduardo E. Silva" <esilva at silvex.com>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [mohaa] recommended settings for server?


> Please post a 'ps -ef' to further look at whats' running.
>
> Nathan Peters said:
> > Yeah I've turned off httpd.  I do have sendmail running but it's not
using
> > too much RAM.  And I'm not usin' X it is text based.  It's not my
computer
> > it's a server located remotely from me.  You pay monthly for what you
> > want.
> > In my case by my limited "cash" I am only able to afford 128mb of RAM.
> > Hey
> > but thanx for your input.  And I'll stop sendmail to see if it helps.
> > Thanks for ur help!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eduardo E. Silva" <esilva at silvex.com>
> > To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mohaa] recommended settings for server?
> >
> >
> >> Since you are rather limited with RAM. Stop ALL services such as httpd,
> >> sendmail, don't use X (use the text based console.
> >>
> >> Nathan Peters said:
> >> > Hey everyone.  I need to ask a question to the linux gurus.  I have a
> >> > server up.  Red Hat linux 9, Pentium 4 3ghz, 128mb RAM (yeah i know
> >> not
> >> > very much - provided by host - I'm limited because of finances).
It's
> > 32
> >> > slots.  5 of them are private.  It is full right now.  I'm on a OC192
> >> > backbone.  Bandwidth rocks.  But lag is experienced some.  What is
the
> >> > recommended amount of RAM?  At first I had 64megs of RAM.  Heavy swap
> >> > usage maxed out RAM.  Then I went up to 128megs of RAM and here is
> >> what
> >> > the top command shows.
> >> >
> >> >  21:40:16  up 10:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.22, 0.1835
> > processes:
> >> > 32 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stoppedCPU states:  25.3% user
> > 2.3%
> >> > system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  72.3% idleMem:   124236k av,
> >> 122020k
> >> > used,    2216k free,       0k shrd,    1836k buff        46488k
> >> active,
> >> >            70744k inactiveSwap:  131064k av,   48176k used,   82888k
> > free
> >> >                   11652k cached
> >> >   PID   USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU
> >> > COMMAND  782 nathan    14   0  104M  98M 38072   R        24.3   80.8
> >> > 74:43   0  mohaa_lnxded
> >> >
> >> > When I had 64megs of RAM it had about the same - 70-80%.  I go to
> > 128megs
> >> > and full loaded server and it's the same?  Neways, can someone tell
me
> >> > what to do?  Do I need more RAM or is that just how the server runs?
> >> > Thanx.
> >> >
> >> > Nathan Have fun customizing MSN Messenger - learn how here!
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Ed Silva
> >> Silvex Consulting Inc.
> >> esilva at silvex.com
> >> (714) 504-6870 Cell
> >> (714) 897-3800 Fax
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Silva
> Silvex Consulting Inc.
> esilva at silvex.com
> (714) 504-6870 Cell
> (714) 897-3800 Fax
>
>