I recently installed Red Hat 9 on a ThinkPad 600e (PII 400, 128 MB).  It
takes between 5 and 10 seconds to bring up Mozilla.
I was under the impression that this old machine would run RH9 faster than
that.  It seems to be paging a lot and I was very surprised how many
processes are running (prior to me doing anything).
1. What would people suggest I do to get things running faster?
Maybe there is no hope for this hardware, I am looking into more
memory (I can double it).  Focus on software/config, etc.
2. Is there a place I can learn what all of these processes are?  In RH9 how
do I turn them off and on.

Thanks.

More info:
uname -a
Linux T... 2.4.20-8 #1 Thur Mar 13...2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

ps aux:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

root 1 0.0 0.0 1368 76 ? S Mar30 0:04 init

root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:01 [keventd]

root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [kapmd]

root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar30 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]

root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [bdflush]

root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:01 [kswapd]

root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [kscand/DMA]

root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:29 [kscand/Normal]

root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [kscand/HighMem]

root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [kupdated]

root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]

root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:23 [kjournald]

root 73 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [khubd]

root 1425 0.0 0.0 1440 76 ? S Mar30 0:00 syslogd -m 0

root 1429 0.0 0.0 1368 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 klogd -x

rpc 1447 0.0 0.0 1544 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [portmap]

rpcuser 1467 0.0 0.0 1528 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [rpc.statd]

root 1522 0.0 0.0 1476 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/cardmgr

root 1546 0.0 0.0 1364 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p

root 1672 0.0 0.0 3508 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd

root 1703 0.0 0.1 1960 152 ? S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1

root 1742 0.0 0.0 2020 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 xinetd -stayalive

root 1762 0.0 0.2 5936 372 ? S Mar30 0:00 [sendmail]

smmsp 1771 0.0 0.0 5732 108 ? S Mar30 0:00 [sendmail]

root 1781 0.0 0.0 1412 56 ? S Mar30 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 -m /d

root 1790 0.0 0.0 1420 116 ? S Mar30 0:00 crond

xfs 1861 0.0 1.0 4904 1364 ? S Mar30 0:05 [xfs]

root 1870 0.0 0.0 5804 4 ? S Mar30 0:00 smbd -D

root 1874 0.0 0.2 4612 356 ? S Mar30 0:00 nmbd -D

daemon 1892 0.0 0.1 1412 160 ? S Mar30 0:00 [atd]

root 1900 0.0 0.0 1348 4 tty1 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1901 0.0 0.0 1348 4 tty2 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1902 0.0 0.0 1352 4 tty3 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1903 0.0 0.0 1352 4 tty4 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1904 0.0 0.0 1352 4 tty5 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1905 0.0 0.0 1352 4 tty6 S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt

root 1906 0.0 0.0 14112 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [gdm-binary]

root 1949 0.0 0.0 14844 0 ? SW Mar30 0:00 [gdm-binary]

root 1950 0.3 5.2 23468 6580 ? R Mar30 32:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/X

root 1959 0.0 1.3 18344 1656 ? S Mar30 0:08 /usr/bin/gnome-se

root 2017 0.0 0.0 3132 76 ? S Mar30 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agen

root 2028 0.0 1.8 10292 2376 ? S Mar30 0:01 /usr/libexec/gcon

root 2030 0.0 0.3 6132 392 ? S Mar30 0:00 /usr/libexec/bono

root 2032 0.0 0.3 17220 464 ? S Mar30 0:08 gnome-settings-da

root 2037 0.0 0.1 2532 212 ? R Mar30 0:00 [fam]

root 2044 0.0 3.6 12720 4608 ? S Mar30 1:16 /usr/bin/metacity

root 2048 0.0 4.6 21356 5884 ? S Mar30 0:49 gnome-panel --sm-

root 2050 0.0 1.8 56664 2364 ? S Mar30 0:16 nautilus --no-def

root 2052 0.0 0.3 16292 472 ? S Mar30 1:04 magicdev --sm-cli

root 2055 0.0 1.2 16676 1616 ? S Mar30 0:09 eggcups --sm-clie

root 2057 0.0 0.8 11652 1032 ? S Mar30 0:03 pam-panel-icon --

root 2059 0.0 1.7 24304 2184 ? R Mar30 1:55 /usr/bin/python /

root 2060 0.0 0.1 1404 132 ? S Mar30 0:00 /sbin/pam_timesta

root 2066 0.0 1.0 16904 1332 ? S Mar30 0:04 /usr/libexec/noti

root 5214 0.0 0.4 7484 556 ? S Apr04 0:00 cupsd

root 15476 0.5 7.3 20260 9196 ? S 17:58 0:09 gnome-terminal

root 15477 0.0 0.2 1848 312 ? S 17:58 0:00 [gnome-pty-helpe]

root 15478 0.0 0.8 4312 1116 pts/0 S 17:58 0:00 bash

root 15579 3.4 21.3 93696 26912 ? S 18:15 0:22 /usr/lib/mozilla-

root 15645 0.0 0.5 2652 704 pts/0 R 18:26 0:00 ps aux

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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:33:17 +0000 Peter Sorrentino wrote:

> I recently installed Red Hat 9 on a ThinkPad 600e (PII 400, 128 MB).  It
> takes between 5 and 10 seconds to bring up Mozilla.
> I was under the impression that this old machine would run RH9 faster than
> that.  It seems to be paging a lot and I was very surprised how many
> processes are running (prior to me doing anything).
> 1. What would people suggest I do to get things running faster?

Shut down services you do not need.

>         Maybe there is no hope for this hardware, I am looking into more
> memory (I can double it).  Focus on software/config, etc.
> 2. Is there a place I can learn what all of these processes are?  In RH9 h
ow
> do I turn them off and on.

service SERVICENAME stop       service SERVICENAME start

Read the comments at top of the init scripts - reliable for the services
- in /etc/init.d/

Read the www.redhat.com/docs/ to know more about your system.

> Thanks.
>
> More info:
> uname -a
> Linux T... 2.4.20-8 #1 Thur Mar 13...2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Please hurry up and update your kernel! Your version has several
serious security flaws! Maybe even all your system has to be
urgently updated.

> ps aux:
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

Alexander


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