Re: [vserver] kernel stacksize

On Friday 12 October 2007, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:59:45PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:59:22PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > does vserver performance benefit from 4k stack sizes instead of 8?
> > >
> > > assumed that the page size of your architecture is
> > > 4k and not 8k, then this will probably give you
> > > a (small) performance improvement and of course
> > > better memory usage
> > >
> >
> > i don't know about the page size of the arch.. its amd64 .. opteron
> > processors.. if its going to be only a small benefit i might best
> > leave it at the default which is 8k.
>
> page size for x86_64 is usually the same as for x86
> so the assumption that it has a 4k page size is most
> likely correct
>

so then if it has a 4k page size, if for no other reason than to match it, it
would be sensible to set the kernel stacksize to 4k.

> best,
> Herbert
>
> > > HTC,
> > > Herbert
> > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Chuck
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chuck
> >
>

-- 
Chuck
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