On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:57:10 -0300, Flávio Etrusco <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
No, at most it will claim 1 few kBytes for storing the terminal (character cell) content itself, but this is not video memory in the world of KMS. Only later is this data drawn to the framebuffer (which is video memory). > I assume anyone using a high number of text/login terminals to be a > server administrator? Is 6 enough? What about Screen? > Your assumption is very flawed. I am not a server administrator and yet find myself dropping into VTs all the time. There simply is no good reason to reduce the default count, as far as I can see. The 5 getty processes incur no scheduling overhead (they are blocking on their ttys from the moment they start), have only kilobytes of memory usage, are used on a daily basis for who knows how many people. While Brandon's original tone was quite harsh, I agree with his sentiments. It seems like this thread is looking to solve a non-existent problem with a very unappealing solution. Cheers, - Ben
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