Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:55:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0 |
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Hi Alan.
>>> Kernel stack is TINY. On iX86 it's only 7KiB or so. And when >>> you'll overflow if you'll corrupt you system badly, BTW.
>> Doh! Ok, I need to learn more. I take it this means recursive >> in kernel is totally a bad idea then?
> You should assume you have at best 2-3K of stack to play with. > You might have more but then the IRQ handlers want some too and > they run on the current kernel tasks stack.
I forget where it was, but I read somewhere that one should assume a maximum of 2.5k of free kernel stack. It would've been around the time when 2.0.29 was current that I saw that, so may not be relevant now.
Best wishes from Riley.
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