[Asterisk-Users] Affecting overhead with Runlevel?

Johnathan Corgan
Sat, 21 May 2005 10:29:40 -0000

Robert Goodyear wrote:

> So: knowing that the X11 window GUI is a resource hog, is it appropriate
> to use the GUI to install and configure various components, then set
> RUNLEVEL to 3 once all is nicely set up and running cleanly? Would this
> give the same effect as doing a minimal install or is the mere presence
> of the installed (yet not inited?) packages too heavy?

That would work fine.  You could still log in to the console and run the
Asterisk console (asterisk -R) to watch things work, which is instructive.

> Corollary: if Asterisk is running as ROOT, is there any benefit to
> booting at RUNLEVEL 1 to prune the overhead down even further? Or is
> that really only for debugging or administrative issues?

Yes, runlevel 1 (or "single user mode" as it is often called) is
primarily for debugging or administration, and is set to run as few
background programs ("daemons") as possible.  Asterisk may depend upon
some of these daemons (email, cron, syslog, to think of of a few), so
runlevel 3 is still your best shot.

-Johnathan