Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:52:26 +1100 | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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On Monday November 14, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > NetWare used 16K stacks in kernel by default. > > > >unsubscribe netware-kernel > > > > > > Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in > kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations.
But I seem to remember learning in CS101 (or whatever we called it), that the stack grows down and the heap grows up. So if 'folks had grown beyond 4K stacks', I guess they must be at 2K stacks ?->
NeilBrown
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