too many virtual terminals by defaut
Brandon Kuczenski
brandon.kuczenski at 301south.net
Wed Mar 31 20:15:03 UTC 2010
"Dear Mr. President. There are too many states nowadays. Please
eliminate three. I am not a crackpot!"
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F16.html
Why in the name of all that is good? My process list features 7 gettys,
it's true, but they're utterly insignificant compared to the 194 other
processes that come out of 'ps aux'. This includes over 60 system
processes (denoted with square brackets). If you're worried about
'human readable' process lists, why not start with those?
Moreover, some people actually use multiple consoles. For me, what you
propose would be quite different from an 'enhancement.' IANAD, but it
seems like you're inventing a problem that doesn't exist, then proposing
something mildly offensive to fix it.
-Brandon
Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I think that only 2 virtual terminals instead of 6 would be enough.
>
> I understand that most of the memory of the virtual terminals is shared.
> However, it would decrease the number of processes (more human readable
> process list, less processes context switch, ...).
>
> There is no small enhancement.
>
>
> Regards.
>
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