On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 09:31:03AM +1200, worik wrote: > I do not use sound on my machine. I am new to OpenBSD and in examining > the running system I see sndio is running. >
When unused, sndiod is very small (eg. smaller than getty) and disabling it won't save much memory. Think of it as a kernel service we moved in user-space. It's like all these features that you don't use but that consume a tiny amount of memory (drivers for file systems you don't have, softraid, drivers for hardware you don't have etc). Such small memory savings are not worth the effort. > I see it is started in /etc/rc, but the FAQ suggests that this file > should not be edited. > > What is the proper way to turn it off? > set sndiod_flags=NO in /etc/rc.conf.local (create one if it doesn't exist). This is explained here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#rc
