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TIP: Save memory

Posted by Jason on Wednesday May 09, @08:23PM
from the warp-factor dept.
If you have installed FreeBSD to use as a workstation and don't plan on hosting any services, you can save some memory and in turn increase your performance by turning off some of the default services in your /etc/rc.conf file.

By default FreeBSD does not have as many services installed and running as other unix clones, but here is what I have added to the /etc/rc.conf file on my laptop to conserve memory. Login as root and use ee or vi to modify the file.

sendmail_enable="NO"
inetd_enable="NO"
cron_enable="NO"
syslog_enable="NO"

Checkout the softupdates tip to learn how to further increase your system performance.

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Re: TIP: Save memory
by Marc Lafortune on Thursday October 10, @09:59PM

On newer version of FreeBSD, between 4.3 and 4.6.2 a change has been made to the sendmail_enable configuration. To shutdown sendmail completly you must put sendmail_enable="NONE" instead of "NO". If you don't, sendmail will still start the queue runner process. This change has been done to accomodate a new design in sendmail.

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