[Sheflug] inittab trimming

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
	This might sound stupid, but I have a server running on a
"modest" computer (486/66), and when users access it with both apache
and proftpd, memory consumption goes up, and at some point, we start
swapping madly (which doesn't really help). The response of the server
is very sluggish, so I though I'd check what can be chucked out. 

	As a first approach, I though that all those getty lines
launched by inittab aren't needed: I only need one console, not 6. Each
of them takes about 500 k (roughly equivalent to a half apache memory
load), so I thought I'd take them out (I know they're in the swap, but
if they aren't used, they shouldn't be there after all, should they?). I
can just do that by going into /etc/inittab and commenting out the lines
tha spawn them, but I am worried of touching this file in case something
explodes or burns.

	Any cautions I should have? And any memory saving tricks would
be appreciated...

	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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