too many virtual terminals by defaut

[Max Bowsher]

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.

Jerome,

A decrease of 4 processes would have negligible effect on the overall
system process list.

An idle process should have negligible context switch overhead.

Thus your proposal seems to me to have no advantages, yet would
disadvantage people who actually use multiple VTs and would depart
needlessly from standards/tradition.

Max.

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