advantages of reducing the no:of virtual consoles ?
 

Hi all,


can any explain me the advantages of reducing the number of virtual consoles ?
(in a normal home users computer)

will there be faster response time from the system ?

Yes, I have also heard that this improves the performance of the system But how ?

Reducing the number of virtual consoles will reduce the amount of used RAM.

Reducing the number of VTs means a little less work for init to do during boot so boot will be a little faster. After boot has completed it will make no difference unless the system has very little memory. I figure the performance improvement is small.

I was trying to reduce the number of virtual consoles using the following link

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howt...ble_extra_ttys

but i couldn't figure out how to edit the tty files to stop them running on system boot.

there is no /etc/event.d/ in my machine( I use ubuntu 10.04),

can any one help me ?


the file(s) i could find was /etc/init/tty4.conf

/etc/init/tty5.conf
/etc/init/tty1.conf
/etc/init/tty3.conf
/etc/init/tty6.conf
/etc/init/tty2.conf


with the contents of tty4.conf as follows:-

# tty4 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty4 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel [23]
stop on runlevel [!23]

respawn
exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4

should I comment all the lines in this file to stop tty4 running on system boot.