I am trying to pare this distro down to the bare workable bones. There are some services I must have running, such as CUPS, some I knew I could disable (i.e., lighttpd), and some, such a cryptdisk, that I at first thought I could disable but then questioned after looking in Synaptic as to what their function is.

Could you post a"must not disable" list of services for antiX so we know what must be there to boot up? I was tempted to go by your"don't mess with this" comments in disabling services, but that is sort of suicidal. But maybe the"don't mess with this" list is the answer.

When one is running a 160mb RAM system such as mine, every spare byte helps.

By the way, I found a combo this evening that will bring an antiX distro running on a 266 w/ 160mb RAM to its knees: Spamassassin loaded and running, IceWeasel and Streamtuner. Spamassassin was, I think, the worst offender since stuff got better after I disabled that.

Don

dieselbenz wrote:I am trying to pare this distro down to the bare workable bones. There are some services I must have running, such as CUPS, some I knew I could disable (i.e., lighttpd), and some, such a cryptdisk, that I at first thought I could disable but then questioned after looking in Synaptic as to what their function is.

In partly answering my own question ...

Did some research this morning into what each service that I still have enabled does. I think I almost have to keep the following services enabled to do what I want to do on the computer: dbus-daemon, dlclient3 (dhcp), dirmngr (certificates), mpd (music), powersaved (suspend mode), and udevd (hotplug). Probably could turn off cron, klogd and syslogd but I doubt if any of those are eating up too much RAM.

Don

Hello,

Using the cheatcode lean will stop the following daemons from running:
rsync, lighttpd, mpd, cupsysd, powersaved.

Open sysvconfig and uncheck the ones you know you definitely do not need.

mpd isn't needed if you play audio from xmms, butis needed if you want to use ncmpc command-line audio app.

anticapitalista wrote:Hello,

Using the cheatcode lean will stop the following daemons from running:
rsync, lighttpd, mpd, cupsysd, powersaved.

Open sysvconfig and uncheck the ones you know you definitely do not need.

mpd isn't needed if you play audio from xmms, butis needed if you want to use ncmpc command-line audio app.

Thanks for the info. I use xmms for all music.

Knew about sysvconfig; that is where I was doing the experimenting.

Will let you know of improvements and/or issues after doing this.

Forgot to mention that spamassassin should be called ramassassin.

I really do not like this app and that is why it is not installed by default.
If you can get used to sylpheed-claws, you will appreciate how fast and light it is, with a lot of nice features too including the 'spam' filter called bogofilter. (I don't think it is installed by default).

Here is a page for sylpheed-claws plugins.



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