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From: "DESAI,RAJESH (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" <rajesh-n.desai@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:37:00 +0000
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] 2.5 - Another user stack size patch
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Any idea - what kind of apps? 

-R
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On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:22:56PM -0400, DESAI,RAJESH (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
wrote:
> So, what kind of apps need 1 TB stacks?

People from within SGI are claiming that some of their apps require 2GB
of stack per processor, so even with existing systems we're looking at
128GB of stack space.  I imagine that the high-end SSI NUMA clusters
will get even bigger in the next while.  The 1TB number was just a nice
round number.

mh

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