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Stripped down Ubuntu box

sallysally Member
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Hi all!
I'd like to run a stripped down, bare minimal, extra low end (64MB) Ubuntu 12.04 box for Openvpn purposes only. Any advice on which components I can safely remove, particularly to save on memory? I know Apache is one, but which others can you recommend?
Many thanks!

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  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    Install Debian 7.0 32-bit minimal. Btw you should post an output of "ps aux" command atleast to see what processes are you running. Then we can help what you could remove safely.

  • ATHKATHK Member

    Here's a few tiny ones from OpenVZ.

    http://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated

    I would start from there as they are very very minimal already.

  • taronyutaronyu Member

    use Minstall

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    @sally Btw you did not mentioned what kind of virt. Technology are you on. OpenVZ, KVM? Or playing at home on a desktop box.

  • sallysally Member

    Great advice so far!
    @pbalazs123 An OpenVZ VPS of 64mb. I mention Ubuntu cos it's the only Linux I'm familiar with.
    Can't get the output of "ps aux" to display properly in this message, I'm afraid!

  • skagerrakskagerrak Member
    edited January 2014

    @sally said:
    Great advice so far!
    pbalazs123 An OpenVZ VPS of 64mb. I mention Ubuntu cos it's the only Linux I'm familiar with.
    Can't get the output of "ps aux" to display properly in this message, I'm afraid!

    Use standard HTML-code instead of the rotten Markdown that the forum prefers.

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    @sally Don't be afraid of Debian, you can handle everything in the same way as like in Ubuntu. Paste the output to pastebin.com and get back with the link.

  • sleddogsleddog Member

    sally said: Can't get the output of "ps aux" to display properly in this message, I'm afraid!

    Wrap it in HTML pre tags.

  • sallysally Member

    But this line stands out (13.7% memory usage) and I don't even have a DNS server setup here. How the hell did "bind" get there?

    bind 653 0.0 13.7 49192 9036 ? Ssl Jan28 0:00 /usr/sbin/named

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    @sally It's installed by default.

  • sallysally Member

    http://pastebin.com/Q5vngQtc

  • sallysally Member

    ...shameless bump - and thanks for the input!

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    xinetd, sendmail, bind9, libsasl2, cups

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    But i would suggest you to install the Debian 6-7 32bit minimal template. It's more easier if you're not familiar in linux.

  • sallysally Member

    @pbalazs123 said:
    xinetd, sendmail, bind9, libsasl2, cups

    ...can all be safely removed?
    Thanks again for your help!!

  • sleddogsleddog Member

    That doesn't look like a standard OpenVz Ubuntu 12.04 install. Did you install all that stuff, or is it some custom template?

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    Yes, you don't need it.

  • sallysally Member

    I toyed with the idea of remote desktop but decided it wouldn't go on a 64mb box. I guess I could add xrdp to the list also? Thanks!

  • pbalazs123pbalazs123 Member

    Yep.

    Thanked by 1sally
  • sallysally Member

    @pbalazs123 said:
    But i would suggest you to install the Debian 6-7 32bit minimal template. It's more easier if you're not familiar in linux.

    Thanks a lot! I'll look into that also! Cheers.

  • BuyCPanel_AlexBuyCPanel_Alex Member

    centOS is a pretty minimal OS too, you might want to consider that

  • sallysally Member

    @BuyCPanel_Kevin said:
    centOS is a pretty minimal OS too, you might want to consider that

    Thanks for the tip!!

  • johnlth93johnlth93 Member, Host Rep

    Exim definitely need to be gone =)

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