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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:04:29 +0200
From: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
       Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69
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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:36AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The kernel stack is (in Linux) unswappable memory that persists
> throughout the lifetime of a thread. It's basically how many threads
> you want to be able to cram into a system, and it matters a lot for
> 32-bit.

Okay, that makes sense. BTW: Why not go a step further and have just 
one kernel stack (probably better one per CPU)?

Greetings

	Torsten