From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:52:26 +1100
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
In-Reply-To: message from Jeff V. Merkey on Monday November 14
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On Monday November 14, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >
> > > NetWare used 16K stacks in kernel by default.
> >
> >unsubscribe netware-kernel
> >  
> >
> 
> Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in 
> kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations.

But I seem to remember learning in CS101 (or whatever we called it),
that the stack grows down and the heap grows up.
So if 'folks had grown beyond 4K stacks', I guess they must be at 2K
stacks ?->

NeilBrown

> 
> :-)
> 
> Jeff
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