Bug#204691: libc6: stacksize is too small

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:27:36PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:45, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > I wonder it's really safe.  If we create a lot of threads like Java
> > EJB environment, we consume virtual memory four times faster than the
> > current implementation.  You find STACK_SIZE is a boundary for each
> > thread.  The right way is to support floating stack (thus libc6-686)
> > or nptl + tls, I think.  I'm afraid this patch affects badly.
> 
> Ah.  Does Java really create that many threads?
> 
> If it does, then you're right: we will have to back out this patch, and
> applications that need abnormally large thread stacks must allocate them
> by hand.

Or get back to having an i686 libc... this is one of the major
advantages.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer