On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Max Bowsher <m...@f2s.com> wrote: > 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. >
IIRC Fedora lowered the number of login terminals for reasons other than process/memory overhead - though I can't remember what reasons were from the top of my head ;-) BTW, does a terminal allocate any video memory when using KMS? I assume anyone using a high number of text/login terminals to be a server administrator? Is 6 enough? What about Screen? Best regards, Flávio -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss