On 08/14/2007 06:08 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> aterm is also a very nice replacement to xterm because it uses so little >> memory. (The 3 aterm windows I have up right now show RSS of 2404, >> 2448, and 2464 in output from ps aux.) > > There are several variables. For instance, the scrollback size affects > the RSS. To see the effect, I started "aterm -sl 24", "xterm -sl 24". > > This is what I saw (for just those two processes, of course): > > F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND > 0 1001 6494 6493 15 0 9744 3040 - S+ pts/1 0:00 aterm > -sl 24 > 0 1001 6516 6515 15 0 5788 2852 - S+ pts/1 0:00 xterm > -sl 24 >
Curious! I haven't had xterm installed now for some time, so I'm going from memory. Main reason I chose aterm was for the smaller footprint. At the moment I have 2 aterms running that would suggest more than scrollback buffer size are factors in RSS: $ ps aux |grep aterm ralph 2899 0.0 0.9 5956 2360 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm -tn xterm -sl 5000 -geometry +0-25 ralph 2900 0.0 0.9 5956 2412 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm -tr -trsb -rv -sl 100 -sh 95 -geometry +700-350 -e tail -f /var/log/auth.log ralph 3064 0.0 0.2 1956 640 pts/1 R+ 08:10 0:00 grep aterm $ Anyway, this is OT (my fault), so did aterm solve your original question about leaving output from 'less' onscreen after exiting? Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
