[nylug-talk] Distro Recommendation... for an old, cruddy machine.

[Sunny Dubey]

On Sunday 06 January 2008 09:13:03 pm Lee Revell wrote:
> D) Reduce RLIMIT_STACK to 256KB ("stack" setting in
> /etc/security/limits.conf)
>
> This will save 7.5MB per thread.  Very important for multithreaded
> apps like Evolution...
>
> Lee

I don't know much about threads and such, but something about the above seems 
wrong.

Either the kernel is wrong for automatically allocating a particular amount of 
memory to any spawned thread.  Or the developers of apps like Evolution are 
wrong for not initializing threads with more realistic memory demands.

*shrug*

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Sunny Dubey

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