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SubjectRe: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
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.

-- Jamie
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