Solaris stability and upgrades (was RE: [SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP)

[Brian Hechinger]

> Keep in mind, 2.5.1 is less bloated than other releases, and the trick
> is TURNING OFF SHIT YOU DONT USE....

yet another reason why i love NetBSD.  it comes with a completely commented
out inetd.conf.  not even telnet is running by default.  a freshly installed
NetBSD machine only has, what, 7 or 8 processes running. :)

wonko at scotty$ ps aux
USER    PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED     TIME COMMAND
wonko 16253  6.2  0.3  568 160 p0 Ss    9:11PM  0:00.55 -ksh 
root  16252  4.4  0.3  156 176 ?? S     9:11PM  0:00.50 telnetd 
root    171  0.0  0.3 1788 164 ?? Ss   27Apr01 12:17.04 /usr/pkg/sbin/named -c 
root    158  0.0  0.2   64 124 a  Is+  26Apr01  0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty sunc
root    156  0.0  0.2  248 100 ?? Ss   26Apr01  0:57.29 /usr/sbin/cron 
root    153  0.0  0.2   96 128 ?? Ss   26Apr01  0:00.36 /usr/sbin/inetd -l 
root     72  0.0  0.2  112 140 ?? Ss   26Apr01  0:41.23 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s 
root      4  0.0  0.7    0 444 ?? DL   26Apr01  7:36.27 (ioflush)
root      3  0.0  0.7    0 444 ?? DL   26Apr01  0:39.39 (reaper)
root      2  0.0  0.7    0 444 ?? DL   26Apr01  0:00.01 (pagedaemon)
root      1  0.0  0.2  364  92 ?? Is   26Apr01  0:00.37 init 
wonko 16256  0.0  0.1  452  40 p0 R+    9:12PM  0:00.07 ps aux 
root      0  0.0  0.7    0 444 ?? DLs  26Apr01  0:10.36 (swapper)
root    173  0.0  0.3 1532 164 ?? Ss   27Apr01  8:06.40 /usr/pkg/sbin/named -p 
wonko at scotty$ 

that's after i got it running my DNS stuff (two servers, one for internal use
and one for external use) and with telnet enabled.  otherwise, stock.

-brian