Re: [Rule-list] Reducing virtual consoles

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Monday 27 May 2002 11:31 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Chris,
>
> your suggestion below is defintiely worth implementing. Where is that
> defined in the installation procedure?

> VCs are a great way to free up memory. Most Linux distributions run
> about 6 of them out of the box. On average running 6 VCs requires about
> 4MB of memory. Removing a couple of them can free up a couple MBs of
> memory.

The number of VCs started at boot time is defined in /etc/inittab, and can 
easily be reduced by simply editing that file as part of the post install 
configuration.

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