Re: Segfault on the i386 enter instruction

From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 18:52:40 EST


Hi Lee,

On Monday, 15. May 2006 21:56, Lee Revell wrote:
> Just FYI, this does actually have an important effect on multithreaded
> programs - glibc will allocate RLIMIT_STACK for each thread stack. If
> mlockall() is used this can eat quite a bit of memory. It's a real
> world problem for some pro audio apps.

If it is: pthread_attr_setstacksize() is your friend.
If you like to use the big hammer: just lower RLIMIT_STACK.

So no unsolvable real world problem here :-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser
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