Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 (4KSTACK) | Date | Mon, 10 May 2004 16:31:33 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> said:
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> I tried 4k stack, I couldn't measure any improvement in anything (as in > no visible speedup or saving in memory).
4K stacks lets the kernel create new threads/processes as long as there is free memory; with 8K stacks it needs two consecutive free page frames in physical memory, when memory is fragmented (and large) they are hard to come by... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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