Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:45:25 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...? |
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utz> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 00:28 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >> Given that as Arjan stated Fedora and even RHEL have been using 4K stacks >> for some time now, and certainly the latter being a distribution which I >> would expect to both host a relatively large number of lvm/md/xfs and what >> stackeaters have you users and to be fairly conservative with respect to the >> chances of scribbling over kernel memory (I'm a trusting person...) it seems >> there might at this stage only be very few offenders left.
utz> I have to recompile the fedora kernel rpms (fc6, f7) with 8k utz> stacks on my i686 server. It's using NFS -> XFS -> DM -> MD utz> (raid1) -> IDE disks. With 4k stacks it crash (hang) within utz> minutes after using NFS. With 8k stacks it's rock solid. No utz> crashes within months.
Does it give any useful information when it does crash? Can you make a simple test case using ram disks instead of IDE disks and then building upon that?
I think I should try to do this myself at some point...
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