On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that since linux made ever thread a seperate > > process they each had their own stack and only shared the heap memory. > > Threads share the entire memory space. That's what makes them threads > instead of processes.
But they have no logical reason to share stack memory. I was assuming the os did things logically. My mistake. > > So I just have to set that line in /boot/config-2.4.18-14 and reboot? > > No; you have to install your kernel source, > read the file /usr/src/linux-2.4/README, > copy that config file to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config, > edit it not manually but using 'make menuconfig', > then build and install the kernel. It will take some learning! Is the option under make xconfig? That's what I usually use. > > > Is that limit per process or system wide? > > It's set at kernel compile time, and controls all processes. > What I mean is the 1 gig limit for 1 gig per process or for 1 gig for all processes? I would think it applieas per process, but I don't want to make any more assumptions. > > Can you point me at documentation > > for the config options? > > http://www.kernelnewbies.org Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
