I put a dual boot on my computer just to toy with Linux for a bit. Win2k uses about 150-200mb of ram when idle (no applications open). Mandrake 9.1 takes a whopping 400mb of ram when idle.
What is that 400mb used for exactly? The only thing I had running was KDE.
Its not actually using it. It allocates it for its use, but if an application requests the memory the kernel gives it up.
From what I"ve read at least
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change /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S<service name> to
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K<service name>
That will keep them from being in memory after you get to run level 5 at least
I may have missed a folder in there
May have to add init.d.. can't remember
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