balazs wrote: > Hi - I start a simple pthread and the program consumes about 10 Mbytes of > virtual memory. If I start 10 threads, it consumes 100 Mbytes.
That's off topic, but the answer is that the default stack size for a thread on your machine seems to be 10M. If you know you don't need such a large stack, you can specify a custom stack size when creating the thread.
