too many virtual terminals by defaut

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Mittwoch, den 31.03.2010, 22:41 +0100 schrieb 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.

Which amount of RAM do these additional four terminals consume?

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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