Re: stack size

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:27:16PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > In cthreads, we currently default to 64k stacks (16 * vm_page_size,
> > c.f. libthread/stack.c:stack_init), should we increase this?
> 
> Yes, it's probably wisest to use the same default that LinuxThreads does.
> Though that might be an issue for Hurd servers with lots of threads.

Yes, esp. with Mach evicting those pages en mass.  Also, I think for
filesystems we know that the normal RPC service thread does not use a lot of
stack.

I don't think we should change anything until we have changed everything to
pthreads, and then we should use small stacks for RPC service threads, and
large stacks by default for everyone else.  I have not yet seen an
application that needs more than 64kb stack (although I have heard of some,
like mysql, IIRC - but we have other problems before such programs run well
on the Hurd).

Thanks,
Marcus

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