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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] Increase size of user stack
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:25:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705638@msgid-missing> (raw)

>>>>> On Mon, 5 May 2003 14:18:52 -0400, Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> said:

  Martin> The current user stack size limit of 2GB is not big enough
  Martin> for large SMP or SSI clusters.  The following patch
  Martin> increases this size from 2GB to 512GB.  The new size is
  Martin> negotiable, but right now SGI has programs that require over
  Martin> 100GB of stack size on a 64 processor machine.  Setting the
  Martin> user stack size to 512GB seems like a reasonable thing to do
  Martin> for future growth.

  Martin> Comments?

Why not make it configurable via setrlimit() and be done with it once
and for all?

	--david


             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-05 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05 18:25 David Mosberger [this message]
2003-05-12 14:38 ` [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] Increase size of user stack Martin Hicks
2003-05-12 14:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-12 14:59 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-12 15:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-12 15:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-05-12 19:10 ` David Mosberger

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