Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!simon From: simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT console: configuration without window server Summary: Releasing memory for applications Keywords: Vanilla console Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 16:29:08 GMT Sender: news@cs.UAlberta.CA (News Administrator) Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 22 I have been running my NeXTstation as a Unix number cruncher and needed to free some more memory: it was paging even with 20 Mbytes of RAM. To release the memory, I adjusted the /etc/tty file so that the loginwindow application was not run, and was able to get a 60 row by 120 column console window by booting as a single user (after interrupting during power up), then initiating the multiuser procedure. (Note, if one allows the NeXT to go through its own booting process, one ends up with a tiny console of some 15 rows by 40 cols, or thereabouts.) This is just fine for what I need, giving me some 4 or 5 Mbytes extra. However, the console has a tendency to go into inverse video (white text on black) apparently at random, and have been unable to figure out how to reset it to black text on white, which I prefer. Can anyone suggest how this can be done? -- W. Simon Tortike, | tel : 403/492-3338 Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219 and Petroleum Engineering, | University of Alberta, | CA*net : simon@mmpe.mineral.UAlberta.CA Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6. | NeXTmail: simon@nawab.mineral.UAlberta.CA