F8t3 - Minimal services to run?

[Harald Hoyer]

Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>        total        used   free   shared   buffers   cached
>>> Mem:     489          67    422        0         3       24
>>> -/+ buffers/cache     39    450
>>> Swap: 1066             0   1066
>>>
>>> Are there any other services that I need for a basic system please, 
>>> such as logging?
>>>
>>> I thought I'd try booting a very minimal system, then add services as 
>>> needed, rather than working from the other perspective of disabling 
>>> services I might not need.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>>
>>> Keith Roberts
>>>
>>
>> You may want:
>>
>> # iptables
>> # network
>> # irqbalance
>> # rsyslog
>> # auditd
>> # cpuspeed
>> # messagebus
>> # rpcbind
>> # rpcidmapd
>> # nscd
>> # sshd
>> # ConsoleKit
>> # crond
>> # atd
>> # avahi-daemon
>> # cups
>> # haldaemon
>> # anacron
> 
> This I would like to have more explained. For want purpose you should run
> irqbalance on system with minimum devices, auditd on system without 
> selinux (which I recommend to switch off on system with slow cpu and low 
> memory). Why cpuspeed on cpu that does not have any of frequency 
> switching. I'm also in doubt about rpc* and nscd to be really necesary 
> on browsing machine. Avahi is needed only for file sharing services, so 
> this is also not essential to run Fedora.
> 
>>
> Adam Pribyl
> 

I said "may" :)