LinuxQuestions.org - Mandrake 9.2 runs multiple copies of services. Help

Hi.

I'm running Mandrake 9.2 as a web server. When I have freshly rebooted, I do a `ps -e` to see what processes are running. Here's what I get:

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[root@mail root]# ps -e

  PID TTY          TIME CMD

    1 ?        00:00:04 init

    2 ?        00:00:00 keventd

    3 ?        00:00:00 kapmd

    4 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

    5 ?        00:00:03 kswapd

    6 ?        00:00:00 bdflush

    7 ?        00:00:00 kupdated

    8 ?        00:00:00 kinoded

    9 ?        00:00:00 mdrecoveryd

  10 ?        00:00:00 kswsuspd

  14 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

  123 ?        00:00:00 devfsd

  248 ?        00:00:00 khubd

  416 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

  419 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

  420 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

  421 ?        00:00:00 kjournald

 1001 ?        00:00:00 portmap

 1026 ?        00:00:00 syslogd

 1034 ?        00:00:00 klogd

 1099 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd

 1126 ?        00:00:00 ypserv

 1218 ?        00:00:00 xfs

 1278 ?        00:00:00 apmd

 1307 ?        00:00:00 rpc.ypxfrd

 1372 ?        00:00:00 atd

 1381 ?        00:00:00 kdm

 1401 ?        00:00:49 X

 1404 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd

 1406 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd

 1407 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd

 1408 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd

 1409 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd

 1435 ?        00:00:00 named

 1436 ?        00:00:00 named

 1440 ?        00:00:00 named

 1447 ?        00:00:00 named

 1448 ?        00:00:00 named

 1472 ?        00:00:00 ntpd

 1498 ?        00:00:00 routed

 1530 ?        00:00:00 sshd

 1579 ?        00:00:00 xinetd

 1620 ?        00:00:00 rpc.rquotad

 1631 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1632 ?        00:00:00 lockd

 1633 ?        00:00:00 rpciod

 1634 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1635 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1636 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1637 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1638 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1639 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1640 ?        00:00:00 nfsd

 1652 ?        00:00:00 rpc.mountd

 1679 ?        00:00:00 rpc.yppasswdd

 1859 ?        00:00:00 master

 1912 ?        00:00:00 sendmail.sendma

 1975 ?        00:00:00 proftpd

 2001 ?        00:00:00 crond

 2026 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe

 2027 ?        00:00:00 logger

 2070 ?        00:00:00 mysqld

 2071 ?        00:00:00 mysqld

 2072 ?        00:00:00 mysqld

 2101 ?        00:00:00 miniserv.pl

 2153 ?        00:00:00 smbd

 2167 ?        00:00:00 nmbd

 2648 vc/1    00:00:00 mingetty

 2649 vc/2    00:00:00 mingetty

 2650 vc/3    00:00:00 mingetty

 2651 vc/4    00:00:00 mingetty

 2652 vc/5    00:00:00 mingetty

 2653 vc/6    00:00:00 mingetty

 3236 ?        00:00:00 kdm

 3241 ?        00:00:00 kdm_greet

 4410 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4417 ?        00:00:00 advxsplitlogfil

 4418 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4419 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4420 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4421 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4422 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4455 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4456 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

 4457 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

12493 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

13585 ?        00:00:00 httpd2

21734 ?        00:00:00 pickup

21765 ?        00:00:00 sshd

21767 pts/0    00:00:00 bash

22013 ?        00:00:00 nqmgr

22039 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

Notice how many copies of httpd2 are running, as well as the other multiple processes. When I do a top, I only have about 6-10 megs of ram left to use. Now, for anyone who's ever run a webserver, you might as well be serving one text page with 1 hit per day with ram like that.

So, my question is: how can I prevent so many copies of processes from starting up (other than by explicitly killing them each time I reboot)? Should I just give in and use Red Hat or some other distro?

Thank you.