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

[Tom Adelstein]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 04:08 -0400, Pat Regan wrote:
> 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

Pat, thanks for the heads up. We can use the information.

I'm wondering if we should put a "performance wiki" up at our new site.

Best -

Tom