Interesting. Besides making sure that X ends up on tty7, is there any
reason why we have 6 VTs? For all the years I've been using linux in a
personal and professional capacity, I think the most ttys I've had
active at any given time was _maybe_ 4...otherwise I was doing
everything in X.
Brian
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:36 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
FWIW: we investigated memory usage of VT's, and it was
significant; we
reduced the number of VT's available on the OLPC (3 or 4, IIRC), and
moved the VT X was on, without any problems.
Of course, our environment is atypical, but that can be said about
everyone's environment...
- Jim
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:26 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> I'm going to agree with the -1.
>
> Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to
"we've
> always done it this way".
>
> I don't see what the big deal really is. We'd have this same argument
> if someone decided to change the number of getty processes. I
> personally think 6 is too many, but since they don't take up much space,
> I don't care that much.
>
> On the topic of documentation: it should be documented in the release
> notes and elsewhere. The only people that are really going to run into
> this problem are people troubleshooting, and if they're worth anything
> for troubleshooting, they're going to either know its been changed or be
> smart enough to try tty2.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:36 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > I would argue strongly that this change should not be made for the
> > > following reasons (in no particular order):
> > >
> > > * The default behavior of X on tty7 has been in place since the
> > > beginning (almost a decade and a half).
> > >
> >
> > -1
> >
> > Can one man make a difference? I voted for Kodos.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
>
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