From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
Cc: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 07:47:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030507144736.GE8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507143315.GA6879@stargate.galaxy>
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 03:56:57PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
>> Agreed, partially. There is the current issue of the kernel stack
>> being just 8k in size and no decent mechanism in place to detect a
>> stack overflow. And there is (arguably) the future issue of the kernel
>> stack shrinking to 4k.
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:33:15PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is the kernel stack shrinked to just a few
> kilobytes? With 256MB of RAM in a typical desktop system it shouldn't
> be a problem to use 256KB from that as the stack, but I am sure there
> are good reasons to shrink it.
> Just curious, thanks for any info
The kernel stack is (in Linux) unswappable memory that persists
throughout the lifetime of a thread. It's basically how many threads
you want to be able to cram into a system, and it matters a lot for
32-bit.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 13:20 top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 13:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 13:56 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 17:13 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-07 17:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:12 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 18:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:44 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 18:46 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 19:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:42 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 20:23 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-07 20:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 9:06 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 11:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-08 12:00 ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-08 15:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09 8:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-09 16:50 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 16:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 18:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 19:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:39 ` Hua Zhong
2003-05-07 21:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-08 10:29 ` David Howells
2003-05-07 17:55 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 16:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-07 19:01 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-07 20:06 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 20:14 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 8:41 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 16:51 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 22:12 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 21:30 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 21:54 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 22:01 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-05-07 14:33 ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 14:47 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-07 15:04 ` Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07 16:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-08 15:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 18:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 15:23 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 15:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 16:49 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 17:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 17:40 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-07 19:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 18:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 17:47 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-07 14:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 20:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 21:27 ` Marcus Alanen
2003-05-07 21:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-08 15:10 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-08 17:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-07 19:38 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 14:08 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-08 18:04 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-05-08 19:05 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-08 21:00 ` Jonathan Lundell
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