Re: 4K vs 8K stacks- Which to use?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

> does it matter?
Well the option is available :)

> why do you think it would be processor-specific?
Well I know IA32 is limited to a 4096 byte page size in the Linux Kernel; 
hence filesystems can only use 4KB blocks on IA32, therefore I was 
wondering if anything might change in 64bit land?

  On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Mark 
Hahn wrote:

>> I use an array of machines with all sorts of CPU's (but no 64bit CPU's
>> yet):
>>
>> Which should I use for each CPU?
>
> does it matter?  4k stacks are primarily for benchmark machines
> under high load, where smaller stacks mean more threads available,
> and less chance of failing to allocate two contiguous pages.
>
>> Which is better and why?
>
> can't possibly matter for any normal use.
>
>> Pentium 1 CPU's
>> Cyrix P150 (120MHZ)
>> Pentium 2 CPU's
>> Pentium 3 CPU's
>> Pentium 4 W/HT
>> Pentium 4 W/OUT HT
>
> why do you think it would be processor-specific?
>