advantages of reducing the no:of virtual consoles ?

[zodiac]

Hi all,

can any one explain me the advantages of reducing the no: of virtual consoles ?

The only advantages that i know are

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

*Reducing the number of Virtual consoles 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.


is there any other advantage(s) that i have missed ?

[Bemk]

It could be that you reduce the amount of cpu cycles used for the login applications in each tty, though I'm not sure about it.

For the rest, I wouldn't know any advantages. I only see disadvantages for me, for I use the text based ttys a lot.

[Rubberman]

No real advantage. The amount of RAM that each uses is minimal - most is shared between them (code, string literals, etc). The amount of time it adds to boot is probably on the order of milliseconds - nothing you'd be able to detect. As someone once so wisely said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!".