Le 11/12/2020 à 04:31, Mason Loring Bliss a écrit : >> Wait a minute. When you say "without GUI", do you mean no X installed, >> or do you mean it lacks the display manager to boot directly into X? >> The former precludes desktop use; the latter is how I use my computer >> every day, because startx and .xinitrc are my friends. > Don't forget xdm, which ends up being what I use. I've never been keen on > leaving a console sitting there logged in but largely forgotten just for > startx, as someone could change to it and take advantage of it being > somewhat vulnerable. But there are practical reasons to consider xdm. > > In terms of weight, compare: > > $ ps -uq 3944 > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 3944 0.0 0.0 16396 2016 ? Ss Dec09 0:00 /usr/bin/xdm > $ ps -uq 6181 > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > mason 6181 0.0 0.0 7916 4140 pts/9 Ss+ Dec09 0:00 -bash > > xdm is taking less than half the resident memory of a bash shell, so if you > have to pick one of them to sit in the background doing nothing once it's > facilitated, xdm consumes fewer resources.
I guess in Bash you could just issue 'exec startx', in which case bash would go away, returning memory and leaving no place for intrusion. I don't make it an argument against xdm. Just cheating about your own arguments (~: -- Didier _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
