[mohaa] recommended settings for server?

Eduardo E. Silva esilva at silvex.com
Wed Dec 17 20:14:58 EST 2003


Well, that looks pretty trimmed down. I would also install the latest
kernel. What are the two perl apps for ?

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



Nathan Peters said:
> 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
>>
>>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Ed Silva
Silvex Consulting Inc.
esilva at silvex.com
(714) 504-6870 Cell
(714) 897-3800 Fax




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