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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] pthread_create memory size
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To: Yigal Goldberger <yigal_gold@domain.hid>
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Yigal Goldberger wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
> 
> I enlarged the stack size during thread creation to 256KB and reduced
> the memory usage by ~140MB , this is roughly explained by an 8MB
> stack per thread .So there is no memory problem . Your quick and
> helpful responses are much appreciated.

Ok. But to avoid doing this tuning blindly, you can use
PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, and I believe checking pthread_attr_setstacksize
return value should tell you if the stack size you try is accepted.

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					    Gilles.