Re: A way to shrink process impact on kernel memory usage?

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On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:10, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Why not allocate an 8k space and put various process-related data
> structures at the beginning of it? Sure, a stack overflow could
> corrupt that data, but a stack overflow would be disasterous anyhow.

No reason why not at all. That's why we've been doing it this way for
years ;)

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