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Author: Mike Garfias
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Subject: Re: stopping services from loading
chkconfig is a redhat deal
on a deb system you'd use:
    update-rc.d <service> stop


On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

> well, just killing samba and bluetooth frees about 700KB
> top says total memory is 385264KB and that of that 10042KB is free
> with
> those afore mentioned services stopped.
>
> as for running chkconfig it isn't on the system. I tried to apt-get
> it but
> the computer said the program was probably obsolete and that there
> was no
> instalation canidate.
>
> As for the PCMCIA card I have a USB drive and a USB multicard
> reader/writer; does either of those count?
>
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:16:27 -0700, Kenneth <> wrote:
>
>> I doubt having these running is affecting your performance, unless
>> you
>> have
>> very little memory to work with. As someone else said, chkconfig
>> is a
>> command-line utility to manipulate this stuff if it exists on your
>> system,
>> and many distros include a graphical utility to check and uncheck
>> services.
>>
>> --- Michael Havens <> wrote:
>>
>>> I was watching bootup and it seems I have a bunch of unnecessary
>>> services
>>> starting at boot.
>>> - PCMCIA
>>> - RAID
>>> - hcid
>>> - sdpd
>>> - SAMBA
>>> - HP Linux Printing and Imaging
>>> I'm not wireless (PCMCIA), I'm not backing up across multiple drives
>>> (RAID), I don't need BLUETOOTH (hcid/sdpd), and I'm not connected
>>> with a
>>> Windows box, neither do I have a an HP Printer/Scanner.
>>>
>>> Am I correct in what I think these services do? Which file do I
>>> need to
>>> comment these entries out of. Perhaps this is what is slowing things
>>> down.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
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