Re: libc6's stack size and 1000+ theads
At Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:21:52 +0100,
Christian Hammers wrote:
> MySQL has some problems with more than 1000 threads as the standard
> libc6 reserves 2MB stack size for each thread which alone consumes most of
> the memory. MySQL suggests to rebuild statically against a local modified
> libc with a stack size of 256kB which is nothing I have much interest in.
>
> uclibc and diet-libc also seem to be quite a lot work to build against
> (using a chroot/own toolchain) and still guarante no solving of the problem.
>
> Do you know a better way to use glibc2/libc6?
> Maybe by setting some obscure environment variable or using LD_PRELOAD
> tricks?
I assume you use i386 architecture.
libc6-i686 was introduced for this purpose. It used floating stack,
so it didn't reserve 2MB stack in glibc 2.3.2-*.deb series. However
the current 2.3.2.ds1-*.deb series does not use linuxthreads on i686
optimized library. Thus, we don't support linuxthreads + floating
stacks currently.
> MySQL does AFAIK not (yet) use NPTL.
I guess MySQL should work with NPTL - because we have not heard any
problems. If you want to use NPTL, you need to upgrade your kernel
to 2.6.
Regards,
-- gotom
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