Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:31:35 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamic thread stack size Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0501241431090.18241-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <1106592548.28710.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:03 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > In a follow-up to the previous discussion on increasing our default > > > thread stacksize, I thought I'd look at how some other BSD > > > implementations do it. Mezz mentioned that he thought NetBSD had a 2 MB > > > default stacksize, so I took a look. > > > > > > What I found was that NetBSD doesn't have a static default stacksize. > > > Instead, they use the stacksize rlimit and a PTHREAD_STACKSIZE > > > environment variable to get both the initial stacksize as well as each > > > thread's default stacksize. I thought this would be a really good way > > > of doing things, so I ported their work to FreeBSD. > > > > Please no. I don't want to have to set any more environment > > variables or login defaults to get libpthread to work with > > certain ports. > > No need. The default stacksize rlimit is more than enough (64 MB) to > satisfy every one of the affected ports thus far. The environment And 64MB is way too big for a default stack size... -- DE
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