counting concurrent users...need advice.

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Kenneth Brody said here...:
> 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?

root     25411  0.0  0.1  2876 1680 pts/1    S    17:03   0:00 bash

VSIZE is 2876, RSS is 1680 in this particular case.

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