counting concurrent users...need advice.

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> Mine also saves on the RAM used in all those extra processes.  RAM is
> cheap, but I don't see a reason to throw it out the window, either.  At
> 1.8MB per instance of bash (tested, SuSE Pro 9.0), on a 32-user license
> alone, that's 32MB in wasted RAM/swap.  It's not the process table I'd be
> worried about so much as memory.
[...]

None of that 1.8MB is shared?

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