> What's the problem here? It's only virtual memory, so the Kernel should > do exactly that already.
ps aux for st and urxvt burhan 7634 0.1 0.3 181100 20748 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt burhan 7650 0.1 0.3 181092 20296 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt burhan 7664 0.1 0.3 181092 21292 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt burhan 7707 0.3 0.3 181092 20508 ? S 19:25 0:00 urxvt burhan 7522 0.3 2.1 191580 131720 ? S 19:23 0:00 st burhan 7532 0.2 2.1 190128 130308 ? S 19:23 0:00 st burhan 7544 0.2 1.1 129540 69632 ? S 19:23 0:00 st burhan 7583 0.1 2.1 190128 130236 ? S 19:24 0:00 st rss is ram memory from my understanding . 100MB or larger for a terminal is much. I don't care about daemon mode , it was just a question. My actual question was how to get larger scrollback with considerable memory consumption.
