Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964807AbVLUUDo (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:03:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964810AbVLUUDo (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:03:44 -0500 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:15335 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964807AbVLUUDn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:03:43 -0500 Message-ID: <43A9B513.6040706@mnsu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:03:31 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hundstad User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sander@humilis.net CC: Arjan van de Ven , David Lang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks References: <200512201428.jBKESAJ5004673@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1135102197.2952.23.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051221111220.GA28577@favonius> In-Reply-To: <20051221111220.GA28577@favonius> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 43 Sander wrote: >Arjan van de Ven wrote (ao): > > >>>how many other corner cases are there that these distros just choose >>>not to support, but need to be supported and tested for the vanilla >>>kernel? >>> >>> >>as someone who was at that distro in the time.. none other than XFS >>and reiserfs4. >> >> > >FWIW, I have a few servers and my workstation running Reiser4 and >CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y for several months now, and haven't encountered >problems yet. One server also runs Reiser4 on top op lvm2, and another >Reiser4 on top of sw raid1. > >I know -mm + Reiser4 + 4kstacks is bleeding edge in more than one way, >but I like that for my workstations and the servers are >test/non-critical. > >All systems do have real-life load though. I'd be happy to provide data >from these systems. Just mail me the commands. > > > I would like to add to this. I've been using XFS+LVM+SCSI in a 14,000+ user University email server with 4k stacks since it became available. I didn't even have problems BEFORE the XFS stuff was stack-dieted. I would also be happy to provide more data. -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/