[Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] Increase size of user stack

David Mosberger
2003-05-05T18:25:33Z

>>>>> 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