[indiana-discuss] reducing the number of services started at boot time

[Dave Miner]

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/7/10, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net 
> <mailto:richlowe at richlowe.net>>:
> 
>     Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at Sun.COM <mailto:Ian.Murdock at Sun.COM>> writes:
> 
>     The biggest complaint I've seen related to SMF and performance is
>     regarding the initial manifest import (and further imports after
>     patching/upgrade).  The number of services _enabled_ has no impact on
>     this, only the number that exist on the installed system.
> 
> 
> Actually, if svcs output would be more  informative in this regard 
> (enabled vs. running), people would have a less "bloated" feeling. It is 
> not easy to figure out if a service is running or not, even if  it's 
> enabled.
> 

Everything that's listed in an online state is "running", it's just a 
question of whether it's a transient service or has daemons associaed. 
And that is actually easy to find out: try "svcs -p".

Dave