What you're refering to is booting into run level 3 as opposed to run level
5. You can do either one, but need to make sure that the daemons started for
each run level are the same, assuming that is what you want.
Look under /etc/rc.d/... to check what you will be starting. You'll see an
rc3.d and an rc5.d, that is where you will find those defs. in rc6.d you
will find the kill processing as run level 6 is used for shutting down the
system.
you certainly will use less memory booting into run level 3 since X Windows
isn't running, but I'm not sure that you would save any memory by starting
into run level 3 and then running startx, since you are doing basically the
same thing as starting into run level 5.
Now, you can use the top program and other resources to compare, but the
biggest advantage of run level three is that you don't have all that
overhead by default from the get go. I like to run my servers this way, if I
decide to have a "GUI on demand" that way, I don't have that overhead there
for no good reason and when I do desire a GUI I can run startx.
I wouldn't recomend this for user workstations, however, since just learning
them folk to sign on correctly can be tough enough - let alone requiring
them to start the X server after they have logged on.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Malka
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:08 PM
> To: Linux Newbie Mandrake
> Subject: [newbie] startx and memory
>
>
> I seem to get the impression in my readings that booting into
> console (text)
> mode and then starting X by startx uses up less memory than
> booting directly
> into GUI - but I may have misunderstood because it was not stated very
> clearly. Is there any truth in that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Registered Linux user 183185
>
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