Greetings: I've tacked on a copy of top's report for a plain-vanilla Planet CCRMA RH 9. I'm going to be advising a client regarding what services he can/should disable for best-case recording (with a nearly identical system), so I thought I'd use my own system for the primary tests. I'd like to know which of the services and jobs listed by top can be safely disabled during the use of a setup consisting of Jack, Rosegarden, and Hydrogen, all in the latest & greatest versions from Planet C. Any and all suggestions will be cosmically appreciated. Btw, at the time of the screen capture I was running Jack (qjackctl), Mozilla, XMMS, and FileRunner, a Tk-based file manager (which is why you see a wish instance in the top report). This report was generated for my desktop machine. Best regards, dp 61 processes: 58 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 4.7% user 2.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 93.0% idle Mem: 515140k av, 504176k used, 10964k free, 0k shrd, 138276k buff 260004k active, 200752k inactive Swap: 1044216k av, 4292k used, 1039924k free 115320k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 1972 dlphilp 18 0 47172 44M 21984 S 2.9 8.9 8:17 0 mozilla-bin 13422 root 16 0 1104 1104 868 R 0.9 0.2 0:00 0 top 1483 root 13 0 101M 37M 3932 R 0.7 7.4 4:52 0 X 1953 dlphilp 12 0 28712 28M 2668 S 0.7 5.5 2:10 0 jackd 1952 dlphilp 12 0 26828 26M 16376 S 0.5 5.2 0:49 0 qjackctl 1961 dlphilp 12 0 40292 39M 14276 S 0.3 7.8 2:14 0 xmms 1489 dlphilp 12 0 7988 7988 2060 S 0.1 1.5 0:00 0 xterm 1 root 12 0 476 476 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init 2 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd 3 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0 5 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 kswapd 6 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush 7 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated 8 root 4 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd 12 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald 653 root 12 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald 1093 root 12 0 556 556 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 syslogd 1097 root 12 0 432 428 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd 1115 rpc 12 0 544 544 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 portmap 1134 rpcuser 12 0 700 700 624 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 rpc.statd 1201 root 12 0 488 484 440 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 apmd 1238 root 12 0 1228 1148 996 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 sshd 1252 root 12 0 884 852 740 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 xinetd 1261 root 12 0 452 448 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 gpm 1305 root 12 0 576 576 516 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 crond 1316 root 12 0 3124 3096 1360 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 0 cupsd 1385 xfs 12 0 4364 4344 1132 S 0.0 0.8 0:08 0 xfs 1403 daemon 12 0 536 528 480 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 atd 1411 root 12 0 1192 1192 968 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 login 1412 root 12 0 404 404 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty 1413 root 12 0 404 404 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty 1414 root 12 0 404 404 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty 1415 root 12 0 404 404 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty 1416 root 12 0 404 404 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty 1417 dlphilp 12 0 1452 1452 1108 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 bash 1471 dlphilp 12 0 1060 1060 928 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 startx 1482 dlphilp 12 0 608 608 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 xinit 1487 dlphilp 12 0 2252 2164 1816 S 0.0 0.4 0:01 0 blackbox 1491 dlphilp 12 0 1452 1452 1116 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 bash 1552 dlphilp 12 0 1448 1448 1140 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 bbkeys 1553 root 12 0 944 944 780 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 su 1556 root 12 0 1468 1468 1128 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 bash 1899 root 12 0 800 604 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 dhclient 1970 dlphilp 12 0 70404 68M 2340 S 0.0 13.6 0:01 0 wish 1987 dlphilp 12 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 netstat <defunct>