Re: less, exit but left content on screen

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Subject: Re: less, exit but left content on screen
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:08:29 -0000
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Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> 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

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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