I'm just curious what 'Getty' is and what it does. The past few days I have noticed that there are always at least six instances of it in System Monitor, each using about 640 KiB memory and status says "n_tty_read".
What does this mean?
getty
is what sits on the text-mode consoles and waits for someone to log in. It configures the tty device and spawns login
when typed at; historically it adapted to the communications line based on what it received, but especially on VCs this is no longer necessary.
getty
from server? I just need assurance that it won't affect logins of users.
Aug 29, 2017 at 10:26