Question
Find unnecessary service/file and remove it from the server to free up the disk space and RAM
Hello, I am newbie at VPN server, so please forgive knowledge I have.
I was playing around with the server installing services to try out different stuff, however I found out I am running 79 total tasks, with high usuage of ram (512mb total).
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 501820 463096 38724 13440 18244 294528
I have installed LAMP kit then installed phpmyadmin and .htaccess which is all I need. Is there anyway to freeup and delete services/(config)files I don’t need? Thankyou
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This depends on how you installed them. If you use aptitude instead of apt-get to install packages you can roll back and ensure any dependencies that were installed for a package are removed as well as the package itself.
If you are using apt-get you may not be able to remove all the dependencies that were installed but you can remove packages you installed (and any files they own) with:
Thanks for a quick reply. How do you find the services I installed?
http://pastebin.com/QAVCtad3
This is the list of packages I have in my server. Can somebody tell what I can get rid-of?