From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A way to shrink process impact on kernel memory usage?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:43:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052599390.1881.7.camel@lapdancer.baythorne.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EBBE10C.4060900@techsource.com>
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:10, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Why not allocate an 8k space and put various process-related data
> structures at the beginning of it? Sure, a stack overflow could
> corrupt that data, but a stack overflow would be disasterous anyhow.
No reason why not at all. That's why we've been doing it this way for
years ;)
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-10 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 17:10 Timothy Miller
2003-05-10 20:43 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-05-10 1:25 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-13 14:45 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-13 19:56 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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