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Re: [RFC] nptl: change default stack guard size of threads

On 11/29/2017 02:28 PM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Why should it be any different from LP64? Typical page size will still be
> 64KB, so a 4KB guard would be rounded up to 64KB. An ILP32 system
> with 64KB pages could create  ~30000 threads per process. Does that
> make it unusable?

... and this is already configurable via pthread_attr_setguardsize(), so
you *could* tune a system to have smaller guards against the recommendation
of the runtime authors?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.
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