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Subject: Re: Kernel stack size
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Hi! Thanks for light speed response!

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> the kernel stack is a VERY LIMITED resource
> basically you have about 4 or 5 Kbytes per process.
Oops... And there is no hope to enlarge it?

> if you overflow it you write over your signal information..
> 
That's what i'm seeing. SIGPROF, particulary.

> you should MALLOC space and use a pointer to it..
> 
But this is loss of speed, isn't it?

Bye!


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