Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Segfault on the i386 enter instruction | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 15:56:30 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 23:38 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> > It is set by a few distributions (for use with flexmmap) in PAM, but > > not by all. The kernel defaults don't have it. > That might explain why I get > $ ulimit -s > 8192 > on fedora core. > Thanks for explanations.
Just FYI, this does actually have an important effect on multithreaded programs - glibc will allocate RLIMIT_STACK for each thread stack. If mlockall() is used this can eat quite a bit of memory. It's a real world problem for some pro audio apps.
Lee
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