Re: Q about VSZ wrt NPTL

Sameer Suhas Deokule <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
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I am looking for information/answer as to any rationale behind choosing the default
stacksize to be 10MB in RHEL3.0. i.e why 10. why not 1 MB or some other value ? Is it related to the processor OR the typical recursion nesting OR something else....?
thanks
Sameer

Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:37:55PM -0700, Sameer Suhas Deokule wrote:
> Maybe I should have been clearer and phrased my question as :-
> 
> How was the default stack size of 10MB arrived at ? Any insight would be
> appreciated.

it's the default ulimit for stacksize in RHEL3, which glibc copies for thread stacks


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<DIV>I&nbsp;am looking for information/answer as to any rationale behind choosing the default</DIV>
<DIV>stacksize to be 10MB in RHEL3.0. i.e why 10. why not 1 MB or some other value ? Is it related to the processor OR the typical recursion nesting OR something else....?</DIV>
<DIV>thanks</DIV>
<DIV>Sameer<BR><BR><B><I>Arjan van de Ven &lt;[email protected]&gt;</I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:37:55PM -0700, Sameer Suhas Deokule wrote:<BR>&gt; Maybe I should have been clearer and phrased my question as :-<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; How was the default stack size of 10MB arrived at ? Any insight would be<BR>&gt; appreciated.<BR><BR>it's the default ulimit for stacksize in RHEL3, which glibc copies for thread stacks<BR><BR><BR>&gt; ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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