Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07T14:21:51Z

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 03:56:57PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Agreed, partially. There is the current issue of the kernel stack
> being just 8k in size and no decent mechanism in place to detect a
> stack overflow. And there is (arguably) the future issue of the kernel
> stack shrinking to 4k.

Pardon my ignorance, but why is the kernel stack shrinked to just a few
kilobytes? With 256MB of RAM in a typical desktop system it shouldn't
be a problem to use 256KB from that as the stack, but I am sure there
are good reasons to shrink it.

Just curious, thanks for any info

Torsten

PS: Joern, you don't by chance know my sister (kirsten@wh.fh-wedel.de)??
:-))