Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:02:43 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 10:23 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > > > ACK. X, evolution and Mozilla family (to name standard apps) are the > > exceptions to this rule. > > If you decrease RLIMIT_STACK from the default 8MB to 256KB or 512KB you > will reduce the footprint of multithreaded apps like evolution by tens > or hundreds of MB, as glibc sets the thread stack size to RLIMIT_STACK > by default.
That should make no difference to the real memory usage. Stack pages which aren't used don't take up RAM, and don't count in RSS.
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