sleepy monitor??

keith smith klsmith2020 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 4 07:56:38 MST 2006


When I execute runlevel it returns "3 5"  - could it be possible I'm running both?

free:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        385772     312696      73076          0      70856     176448
-/+ buffers/cache:      65392     320380
Swap:       666688         88     666600

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[root at dev bin]# /sbin/telinit 3
[root at dev bin]# free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        385772     298428      87344          0      70896     175780
-/+ buffers/cache:      51752     334020
Swap:       666688         88     666600

[root at dev bin]# /sbin/runlevel
5 3

------

[root at dev bin]# /sbin/telinit 5
[root at dev bin]# /sbin/runlevel
3 5
[root at dev bin]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        385772     312956      72816          0      71024     176468
-/+ buffers/cache:      65464     320308
Swap:       666688         88     666600
[root at dev bin]#

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Looks like only 14M diff.

runlevel 3 kills samba, mysql and httpd also.  I would think that would be worth a little also.

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I would be interested in changing runlevel 3 to start samba, mysql, and httpd.  These are the ones I use all day.

This has been most informative and interesting!

Thnaks for your help,
Keith 



"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote: Yep, you have it right.

Note, at runlevels 123, the console will have a CLI login prompt, so you can
 still log in there (and telinit 5) and switch virtual terminals
(ctl-alt-f2, etc). You just won't have the GUI (X) until you are at run level 5.

I don't know how much resources you'll free by doing this, as any processes
running would be idle. I suppose it'd free up some ram though. I'd be
interested to see the difference, if you'd care to compare and share your
results.

keith smith wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> inittab says:
> 
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #   1 - Single user mode
> #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
> networking)
> #   3 - Full multiuser mode
> #   4 - unused
> #   5 - X11
> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> 
> So I can ssh in and "telinit 3" to turn off X, which I'm thinking will
> free resources.
> 
> Then if I want to go to the console directly I can ssh in and "telinit
> 5" to activate X again.
> 
> Do I have this right?  And if so this rocks!!!!
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Keith
> 
> 
> */"Eric \"Shubes\"" 
/* wrote:
> 
>     To recycle X w/out shutting down everything, you can
>     # telinit 3
>     from a window, wait for X to terminate, log back into a CLI windown,
>     then
>     # telinit 5
> 
>     The telinit command "tells init" to enter the specified run level.
>     HTH
> 
>     keith smith wrote:
>     > Thnaks a bunch.
>     >
>     > Any way to make a change so I do not have to shutdown?
>     >
>     > Thanks for your help,
>     > Keith
>     >
>     > */Dan Lund /* wrote:
>     >
>     > Setterm -blank 0
>     > That will fix it if you start X by hand. Otherwise, stick it
>     > somewhere in your profile? Never used fedora much.
>     >
>     >


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
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