too many virtual terminals by defaut

[Max Bowsher]

Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> What about the system startup duration impact ?

What about it?

My intuition is that starting a few extra VTs should not take
significant time. Produce evidence to the contrary if you disagree.

Max.

> 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.
>>
> 
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