too many virtual terminals by defaut

[Jérôme Bouat]

On one side, if you want to use many virtual terminals, then it means 
that you have enough skills to configure additionnal terminals.

On the other side, if you are a newbie, you will possibly never use a 
virtual terminal.

Thus I think the default configuration should provide only 2 virtual 
terminals.


With default configuration (except evolution removed) :
---
j at j-d:~$ ps ax|wc -l
123
j at j-d:~$
---

If we delete 4 unused processes, we decreases the number of processes by 
3%.


Regards.


Brandon Kuczenski a écrit :
> "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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