Re: [Sheflug] inittab trimming

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

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:16:44PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> bear in mind that the apparent size of a process may be more than it really
> is, since it includes stuff like the execuatable image and any shared
> libraries, which may be shared amongst several processes. In the case of
> getty, I would imagine that each process is only using a small amount of
> private memory, and getting rid of the extra ones wont make that much
> difference.

	Didn't know that. I thought it only applied to threads. In that
case, you might be right, it's not even worth doing...

> Also, you wont be able to do ALT-CTL-N any more and get a shiny new login
> prompt :-(

	It hasn't got a keyboard or monitor. I only need a console when
I need to reboot (in case I've forgotten that NIC module again!).

	Cheers,
	José

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