To eliminate virtual consoles...

[hermit]

is that possible? like debian:

su nano /etc/inittab

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

then u comment lines 2 to 6

 

[DutchDaemon]

Edit /etc/ttys. Set 'on' to 'off' and # kill -HUP 1.

 

[Beastie]

You're looking for /etc/ttys? Or am I misunderstanding?

EDIT: oops, a few seconds late...

 

[hermit]

some tips about optimization?...

 

[Beastie]

What would you possibly want to optimize in there? It's not like those 7 VTs/gettys take a lot of memory or processing power. On my system, the unused ones take less than 1MB of reserved memory and have been running for exactly 0 seconds.

 

[phoenix]

You can also edit your kernel config file to set options MAXCONS= however many consoles you want. Then, no matter what's set in /etc/ttys, you'll never have more than that many consoles.

Back in my early days, I used to set this to 4. No real reason why, except 8 seemed like too many. Now, I just leave it be.

 

[DutchDaemon]

Heh, I always edit ttys down to 4 as well No real reason.