Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants

[Andries Brouwer]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> What might work (if you've not already tried it) is to make the initial
> stack something like 1 or 4Mbytes. Don't map the pages but install a vma
> of that size. That would pre-reserve address space and perhaps avoid
> this. I guess if that works then make it a /proc/sys tunable for
> guaranteed stack.

A good and simple idea.
Yes, works entirely satisfactorily in my first few tests.

Andries
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