Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

Jeffrey Hundstad
2005-12-21T20:03:44Z

Sander wrote:

>Arjan van de Ven wrote (ao):
>
>
>>>how many other corner cases are there that these distros just choose
>>>not to support, but need to be supported and tested for the vanilla
>>>kernel?
>>>
>>>
>>as someone who was at that distro in the time.. none other than XFS
>>and reiserfs4.
>>
>>
>
>FWIW, I have a few servers and my workstation running Reiser4 and
>CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y for several months now, and haven't encountered
>problems yet. One server also runs Reiser4 on top op lvm2, and another
>Reiser4 on top of sw raid1.
>
>I know -mm + Reiser4 + 4kstacks is bleeding edge in more than one way,
>but I like that for my workstations and the servers are
>test/non-critical.
>
>All systems do have real-life load though. I'd be happy to provide data
>from these systems. Just mail me the commands.
>
>
>

I would like to add to this. I've been using XFS+LVM+SCSI in a 14,000+
user University email server with 4k stacks since it became available.
I didn't even have problems BEFORE the XFS stuff was stack-dieted. I
would also be happy to provide more data.

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Jeffrey Hundstad