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To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:48:40 +0200
In-Reply-To: <480AA2B9.10305__23983.3358479247$1208657639$gmane$org@sandeen.net> (Eric Sandeen's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:09 -0500")
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Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> writes:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>>> ...
>>> with the older kernel is typical: xfs+nfs+4k stack(+lvm)
>> 
>> Does anyone still experience problems with 2.6.25?
>
> There are always problems.  You can always come up with something that
> will crash in 4k, IMHO.

But what are a few crashes compared against the ability to run 50000
kernel threads on a 32bit machine? Something has to give in the aim
for useless checkbox numbers after all. 

-Andi