From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:36:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] Increase size of user stack Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox writes: |> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:59:38AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: |> > Maybe I'm missing something, but what happens if a process is created |> > using the default 2GB between the RBS and the stack and sometime |> > later the process does a setrlimit to 100GB of stack. How do the=20 |> > stack and RBS get moved around to make enough room between the two |> > start addresses? |>=20 |> They don't. However, the new maximum would take effect for any newly |> created children. But setrlimit takes effect immediately, not only for newly created children. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N=FCrnberg Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."