RPIzW Stretch 24/7 running

[AndersUk]

I'm running a Raspberry Pi Zero W 24/7 as a headless server - no screen, mouse or keyboard access. I'm using the latest cut of Stretch. It connects to the internet via wifi - doesn't need bluetooth.

What services can I drop from systemctl to get this as lean as possible? secondly, what's the best to drop services? systemctl disable? mask? other?

Trying to get a smooth reliable server - that can be rebooted back to an up and running state quickly & reliably.

TIA

[PhatFil]

just dont start services your not employing.

whats currently configured to start up?

a little googleing should reveal whats what if you dont recognise the daemons running

fwiw my own headless pi-0-w server runs the full desktop version of stretch not the lite version, and hosts a mqtt broker web server docker and a couple of servers as well as node red.. its not slow restarting imho.. but i rarely use its resources directly beyond the odd terminal session to update and a couple of the hosted web interfaces.

[BeauSlim]

Assuming that you are actually running "lite" not the desktop version, there really isn't much to turn off. Maybe avahi if that's running.

Add "dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt" to your /boot/config.txt to make sure bluetooth is disabled. Yes "pi3" on the zero.

[itsmedoofer]

Hi,

You didn't mention what you intended running, however I would echo what BeauSlim said, there is not a lot of fat that I have found in the lite image.

I have a ZeroW running Apache, its crude I know but a reboot took about 50 seconds until SSH was back up…

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13:21:31.756 The SSH2 session has terminated with error. 
13:22:19.971 Connection established.

HTOP shows me using about 60Mb Ram, with me connected...

I have had a play around with this in the past, could be handy for you

https://dietpi.com/dietpi-software.html

[AndersUk]

I’m running a number of continuously running python scripts doing various tasks.

Thank you for the feedback - this is very reassuring.