Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751193AbWAYPDM (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:03:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbWAYPDM (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:03:12 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:21453 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbWAYPDL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:03:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:02:43 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Lee Revell Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , 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 Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Message-ID: <20060125150243.GA8490@mail.shareable.org> References: <200601240211.k0O28rnn003165@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1138181033.4800.4.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1138182179.3087.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1138182179.3087.1.camel@mindpipe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 20 Lee Revell wrote: > 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. That should make no difference to the real memory usage. Stack pages which aren't used don't take up RAM, and don't count in RSS. -- Jamie - 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/