How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[Charles Howse]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Florian Diesch wrote:

> Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> I have 8.10-server-i386 running in command-line only.
>> Surely some of the processes below are unnecessary.
>
> I don't see anything uncommon for a server.
>
> You could reduce the number of pop3-login processes
> (login_processes_count in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) if you have very
> few POP3 users or the number of active consoles (ACTIVE_CONSOLES in
> /etc/default/console-setup) if you don't need 6 consoles.

Hi Florian, nice tip.  I'm the only pop3 user, so I can change that,  
and I think I will go ahead and remove some of those consoles.