Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:15:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Amy Fong <afong@furryterror.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stack/memory usage in kernel related question Message-ID: <200104041815.f34IFMh01298@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:12:00 EDT." <E14krlA-0008PX-00@mokona.furryterror.org>
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> Query: I've noticed that if I use up too much stack space, the freebsd
> kernel (4.2) seems to crash very easily. Specially, if I create an
> array of size N within a function, once the function gets invoked,
> my machine just reboots. How do I find out how much stack space I've
> got? I'm assuming that it _is_ a stack issue. :)
Assume you don't have any stack. It'll vary from platform to platform,
but the kernel stack on x86 is about 7.5k. So just don't do it. 8)
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