Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks | | From | Dumitru Ciobarcianu <> | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:34:57 +0200 |
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În data de Lu, 19-12-2005 la 15:17 -0500, Parag Warudkar a scris: > On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: > > > but you din't answered my question > > regarding _which_ os you mentioned needing more stack space and why. > > The two other commercially successful OSes - Windows and Solaris have > 12Kb and 8Kb default kernel stack sizes. And both seem to do well > (hold on :) with the large stack sizes - meaning there is no > commercially observed problem created by the 8K stack size. Solaris > even lets you change the kernel stack size at runtime.
My point was that you don't know why those two OS have such a large stack. Just because you can't look at the source without being contaminated.
-- Cioby - "I'll just stop feeding the troll now"
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