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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task (fwd)
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:42:02PM -0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> It is highly recommended to use the existing stack size of
> 8KB, increasing the stack size to 16KB with an 200
> processes running on an average causes 1.5MB of
> extra memory to be used.

This sounds small compared to the costs of struct page.
Of course, I would be concerned regardless if this patch
were for anything but debugging.

Excellent work!


Cheers,
Bill