Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:45, Greg wrote: >> Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:33, Aron Smith wrote: >> >> On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:02 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: >> >> > > I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am >> >> > > the output from dmesg looks something like this >> >> > >> >> > > Thanks in advance >> >> > > smitty >> >> > >> >> > Are you running xinetd, if so why, and what other services do you have >> >> > running. Also are you updated to kernel 2.4.22-30mdk ? >> >> Using kernel 2.6 >> >> here is output from top >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 9449 root 25 0 2172 1048 1964 R 91.1 0.2 1:11.94 top >> >> 4962 root 15 0 23304 11m 13m S 6.3 1.8 108:31.45 X >> >> 9471 aronsmit 15 0 27956 15m 25m S 2.0 2.5 0:01.19 kdeinit >> >> 6195 aronsmit 15 0 39112 27m 31m S 0.3 4.4 0:06.43 kdeinit >> >> 9506 aronsmit 17 0 2172 1048 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.11 top >> >> 1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.42 init >> >> 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 >> >> 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0 >> >> 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0 >> >> 5 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kapmd >> >> 6 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush >> >> 7 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 pdflush >> >> 8 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 >> >> 9 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 >> >> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod >> >> 15 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kjournald >> >> 121 root 17 0 2036 1208 1588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.85 devfsd >> >> 245 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khubd >> >> 562 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kjournald >> >> 565 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald >> >> 827 root -2 0 1628 1628 1468 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 watchdog >> >> 2755 rpc 15 0 1712 580 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 portmap >> >> 2779 root 16 0 1640 608 1468 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 syslogd >> >> 2787 root 15 0 2592 1536 1416 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 klogd >> >> 2846 root 18 0 1712 712 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd >> >> 3243 xfs 16 0 5384 3756 2512 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 xfs >> >> 3268 root 18 0 1604 540 1448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hcid >> >> 3279 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd >> >> 4869 root 16 0 1588 536 1428 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 apmd >> >> 4910 root 16 0 2688 692 2504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mdkkdm >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> >Why is portmap running? Are you using NFS? >> > >> >LX >> > >> > >> > >> What is portmap and should it be running >> Greg > >It's a service generally used for NFS and for some reason is enabled by >default on Mandrake installs; I don't use NFS, I tend to use samba more; >I think the aussies have made it more secure than NFS. Portmap uses the >rpc protocol, which is notoriously insecure and notoriously famous with >crackers for being entryways into unsecured boxes. Especially since >portmap is enabled BY DEFAULT on Mandrake boxes. > >If you don't run NFS, shut it down on all runlevels. > >LX > > > So how do I shut down all run levels and even know if they are running I did not see it in top Just what should be running for a basic linux box I may have some weak spots in my system and I want to find them before some one else does Thanks Greg
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