Turning off items that load on boot

[Matt Florido]

On Tue, March 8, 2005 10:22 am, Neal Wilkinson said:
> Is there a GUI that does this? I have 384mb of ram and my machine sits
> with 13mb free when the desktop loads. As you might imagine this is
> sluggish. I'm quite sure I have a bunch of stuff running that I can
> shutoff but haven't figured out how in Linux yet. Where should I start?
> Thanks.
>

Aside from what the other people responded with, you could also run ntsysv
from the console or system-config-services.

How are you determining "13mb free"?  One misunderstanding is the amount
of memory free.  If you have memory available, the OS attempts to use as
much of it as it can for various functions.  This doesn't necessarily mean
you're running out of memory.  As applications need memory, the OS
basically allocates it.

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Regards,
Matt Florido