Subject: Re: [vserver] kernel stacksize
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:21:28 +0200

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 

best,
Herbert

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