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- From: walder@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (John Walder)
- Subject: Is a getty server replacing multiple getty processes feasable?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:50:17 GMT
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- What I was wondering if it would be possible to write a getty server which
- would open the ports and spawn a getty to service a port only when input is
- detected on that port.
-
- Any thoughts on this?
-
- Our Mips unix system has up to 50 getty/uugetty processes serving modems/serial
- ports. Each process consumes 260k. So 260k * 50 = 13000k of memory used just
- for running multiple gettys.
-
- - John
-