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From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:26:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040930202653.GA5532@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096550863.19487.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> What might work (if you've not already tried it) is to make the initial
> stack something like 1 or 4Mbytes. Don't map the pages but install a vma
> of that size. That would pre-reserve address space and perhaps avoid
> this. I guess if that works then make it a /proc/sys tunable for
> guaranteed stack.

A good and simple idea.
Yes, works entirely satisfactorily in my first few tests.

Andries

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-30 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 13:41 [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants Andries.Brouwer
2004-09-30 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 14:19   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-30 13:27     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 20:26       ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-09-30 14:25 ` Hugh Dickins

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