Ajitabh Pandey wrote:
> Also, say I am working on already started X server as
> one user and then I change to another virtual console
> using <ctrl><alt><Fn> and want to run any other x
> application, why should I satrt a second copy of X
> server for this.
Or you can open a xterm in same X server su to required user and run the X
application. It will run with the suers privilage you sued to.
> I don't actually require this as I don't have
> sufficient RAM (only 64 MB) but just a small doubt ;-)
Forking entire X session causes increase of less than 5MB I guess. I have run 6
startx sessions on my (then) 64MB machine. It used just 10MB of swap. Individual
apps will take additional memory but ertainly memory doesn't add arithmatically
in linux. It follows some reciprocal progression.(There are three types of
preogressions. arithmatic, geometric(I hope this is right) and I forgot the
third one, starting with h. Something similar to 1+1/x+1/x^2... My maths is
getting real rusty these days. Got to dump computers...;-)))but memory in linux
increases in that third "unknown" progression is all I want to say.
Shridhar
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