Red Hat performance Tuning help.

keith morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Wed Feb 16 19:03:35 UTC 2005


Travis Zadikem wrote:
> I am resending this but differently  We would like to know how to
> performance tune Red Hat.  We are only
> using this for Email (Cyrus, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Apache, ProFTPD).  Any ideas
> what could be turned
> off and/or where to point me to performance tune this puppy so that it works
> at its very best as an email
> server.
> 
> Here is my chkconfig --list:
> 
> 


I would turn off the following items as well as removing their assocatiated rpm installation.


gpm
netfs
irda
nscd (this one is variable, I probably would install bind and caching-nameserver rather than this)\
isdn
ip6tables  (unless you are doing ipv6 iptables rulesets)
pcmcia
sendmail
autofs
portmap
nfs
nfslock
snmptrapd
rhnsd
cups
ypbind
snmpd  (unless you need snmp for metrics)
vncserver
hpoj
winbind
lisa
smb
dc_client	(don't know what this is)
dc_server	(don't know what this is)
httpd
squid
dhcrelay
vsftpd
dhcpdtux
netdump-server
yppasswdd
ypserv
ypxfrd
dsanet			(don't know what this is)
dkms_autoinstaller	(don't know what this is)
procfgd			(don't know what this is)
tomcat			
kadmin			(don't know what this is)
kprop			(don't know what this is)
krb524			(don't know what this is)
krb5kdc			(don't know what this is)
spamass-milter
mdmpd
insightserver		(don't know what this is)
clamav-milter
sgi_fam:
krb5-telnet:



> microcode_ctl   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> gpm             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> kudzu           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> syslog          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> random          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> rawdevices      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> saslauthd       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> clamd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> irda            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> nscd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> psacct          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> apmd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> isdn            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> ip6tables       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> pcmcia          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> smartd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> autofs          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> netdump         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> portmap         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> nfs             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> nfslock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> snmptrapd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> rhnsd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> cups            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> ypbind          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> snmpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> vncserver       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> hpoj            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> xfs             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> spamassassin    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> winbind         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> lisa            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> smb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> dc_client       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> dc_server       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> httpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> aep1000         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> bcm5820         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> squid           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> dhcrelay        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> named           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> vsftpd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> dhcpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> arptables_jf    0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> tux             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> netdump-server  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> yppasswdd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> ypserv          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> ypxfrd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> dsanet          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> dkms_autoinstaller      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on
> 6:off
> procfgd         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> tomcat          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> kadmin          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> kprop           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> krb524          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> 

          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> spamass-milter  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> mdmpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> yum             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> insightserver   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> clamav-milter   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> xinetd based services:
>         krb5-telnet:    on
>         rsync:  off
>         eklogin:        off
>         gssftp: off
>         klogin: off
>         chargen-udp:    off
>         kshell: off
>         chargen:        off
>         daytime-udp:    off
>         daytime:        off
>         echo-udp:       off
>         echo:   off
>         services:       off
>         time:   off
>         time-udp:       off
>         cups-lpd:       off
>         sgi_fam:        on
>         ktalk:  off
>         imap:   off
>         imaps:  off
>         ipop2:  off
>         ipop3:  off
>         pop3s:  off
>         tftp:   off
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Travis A. Zadikem
> IT Manager
> Picosecond Pulse Labs, Inc.
> <http://www.picosecond.com>
> 303-209-8206 (office)
> 303-209-8203 (fax)
> 
> 




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