too many virtual terminals by defaut

[Jérôme Bouat]

What about the system startup duration impact ?

Max Bowsher a écrit :
> 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.
>