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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:44:40 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Eugene L. Vorokov" <vel@bugz.infotecs.ru>
To:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel stack size
Message-ID:  <200108171344.f7HDife37351@bugz.infotecs.ru>
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Julian Elischer" at Aug 15, 2001 12:19:56 AM

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> In 5-0-KSE there is a single page that contains the stack and 
> the PCB (which is about 660 bytes). We are also looking at adding
> code to set a hardware watchpoint between the stack and the PCB
> to catch overruns.

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I still don't understand, what is the reason of
keeping kernel stack size so small ? I understand there should be no
need in huge stack, but why so damn small ? Would someone explain please ?

Regards,
Eugene


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