[techtalk] Re: virtual terminals (fwd)

[Jennifer]

I didnt think it would take that much, but that is still quite a bit. 


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Re: virtual .. by
> Jennifer at gate.net 
> > I doubt much if they are console logins. I can open 35 terminals in X before
> > my memory starts hurting. 
> 
> Hm.. looks like here agetty takes 840k, and X has 8M at the moment.  So,
> thats 40*.84 + 3*8 = 57.60M.  Hm.. guess it wouldn't be a problem if you
> have a lot of memory (and most of these probably would be swapped out.
> guess there is a reason to have multiple swap partitions :)).  I guess I
> just remeber recompiling the kernel on my 8M machine to use 3 vcs
> instead of 6 (as well as wondering what would happen if I killed syslogd
> to save its 1M...whee.. low memory). 
> 
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