[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part I | Linux Journal

[Pat Regan]

Tom Adelstein wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 14:14 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
>> One of the suggestions is to disable some of the extra virtual consoles. 
>>   Has anyone ever measured how much that actually saves.  I rarely use 
>> more than 2 or 3 but it doesn't seem like it would save much.
> 
> 
> Using a process monitor, I get about 1.7 MB per console.
> 

Instead of disabling them I switched from getty to fgetty, which appears 
to be the smallest getty around.

Here is what ps shows me:


root      1998  0.0  0.0  1580  408 tty1     S    May05   0:00 /sbin/getty

root      3977  0.0  0.0   100   24 tty1     S    May16   0:00 
/sbin/fgetty tty1

I only started running fgetty a few months ago, but it is working out 
just fine.  It is also buying me 7 or 8 megs or ram for cache on my 
laptop, so I am quite happy with it :).

Pat