Background services.

[aged hippy]

I've just checked how much memory i have available, and i'm quite frightened to see that the system is using 671,148kb (plus 34,556kb of the swap) -- with nothing running in the tray, other than KNetworkManager, which leaves me with 103,884kb free.

Is this much memory usage normal? Beagled and beagled-helper are using 60,000 between them, and bluetoothd-serv appears twice, using a total of 5,606. I have no need of bluetooth (as far as i know), knotify is using 36,184, and kweatherservice 26,804, - can i safely stop these?

It seems to me to be an excessive use of resources for a system which is just idling, is it possible to thin out some of the processes which aren't absolutely necessary?

[claydoh]

Re: Background services.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management

the top paragraphs sums it up pretty well.

[dibl]

Re: Background services.

I have no need of bluetooth (as far as i know), knotify is using 36,184, and kweatherservice 26,804, - can i safely stop these?

I don't need bluetooth either - here's how to turn it off. Open KMenu>System Settings, click "Advanced" and open "System Services". Click the "Administrator" button and give it your password. Scroll down the list of services until you get to bluetooth, right-click it, and click the "toggle" button to change it to "NO" for starting at boot.

I haven't dealt with kweatherservice, but if it is on that same list of system services, you can probably toggle it off the same way.

HTH

[aged hippy]

Re: Background services.

Thanks for that link, claydoh, i've just re-booted and when the drive had stopped accessing, the figure was 360,916kb in use.

Thanks for that info, dibl, i've switched bluetooth off - but i don't think i'll interfere with the kweatherservice, it doesn't appear on the list, and typing "kweatherservice --help-all" into a konsole leads me to suspect that it's nothing to do with whether it's raining in the Bahamas....


Thank you both for the help.