Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751078AbWAYJnU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:43:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751090AbWAYJnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:43:19 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:3493 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751089AbWAYJnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:43:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... From: Lee Revell To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Horst von Brand , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Diego Calleja , Ram Gupta , mloftis@wgops.com, barryn@pobox.com, a1426z@gawab.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1138181033.4800.4.camel@tara.firmix.at> References: <200601240211.k0O28rnn003165@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1138181033.4800.4.camel@tara.firmix.at> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:42:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1138182179.3087.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 10:23 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > ACK. X, evolution and Mozilla family (to name standard apps) are the > exceptions to this rule. If you decrease RLIMIT_STACK from the default 8MB to 256KB or 512KB you will reduce the footprint of multithreaded apps like evolution by tens or hundreds of MB, as glibc sets the thread stack size to RLIMIT_STACK by default. Lee - 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/