Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...

[Lee Revell]

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

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