Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:18:36 -0600 From: "Drew Eckhardt" <drew@poohsticks.org> To: Amy Fong <afong@furryterror.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stack/memory usage in kernel related question Message-ID: <200104041918.NAA12926@schizoid.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:12:00 EDT."
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On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:12:00 EDT, Amy Fong <afong@furryterror.org> wrote: >Query: I've noticed that if I use up too much stack space, the freebsd >kernel (4.2) seems to crash very easily. Single page sized kernel stacks aren't uncommon (I don't recall what FreeBSD uses, but have found the "it's small, don't allocate arrays there" strategy to work well). >Specially, if I create an >array of size N within a function, Don't put arrays on the stack. Use kernel malloc instead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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