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From: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: thread stacks and strict vm overcommit accounting
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070313163320.GA28104@localdomain> (raw)

Hello,

This question is relevent to 2.6.20.

I noticed that if the RSS for the stack size is say, 8MB, running
a single-threaded process doesn't incur an increase of 8MB to
Committed_AS (/proc/meminfo).

However, on multi-threaded apps linked with pthread (on Debian
Etch with 2.6.20 vanilla x86_64), every thread will incur the
the specified maximum stack size RSS (assuming that you use
the default attr). In other words, it appears that vm accounting
works differently in that case.

Is this the intended behaviour?

-- 
Dan Aloni
XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com
da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il

             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-13 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-13 16:33 Dan Aloni [this message]
2007-03-15 19:06 ` thread stacks and strict vm overcommit accounting Andrew Morton
2007-03-15 20:37   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-15 20:59     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-03-15 23:33     ` Alan Cox
2007-03-15 22:36       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-15 23:08         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-16  1:31           ` Alan Cox
2007-03-16 14:43           ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-03-15 23:42         ` Dan Aloni
2007-03-16  4:29   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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