Subj : Re: pthread_create and memory
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gio67
Date : Fri Mar 11 2005 10:55 am

Thank you.I try but nothing change.
Do you have the same problem ?
Is possible that the problem depends from whitch library I use ?

"jd" <jedrzej_dudkiewicz@poczta.interia.pl> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:d0rsm2$284$1@news.supermedia.pl...
> > I hava fedora core 2 linux system with kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and i have
> > installated the pthread library. I try to use the function
pthread_create
> > ().
> > I done this simplex  test:and work fine.
> > The only problem is that after each new thread the memory of my process
in
> > increased of 10 MB !!! Why ??
>
> Because each thread has it's own stack. In this case it looks like it's
size
> is one megabyte - that's all.
>
> You can change size of process' stack using pthread_attr_setstacksize()
> function.
>
> pthread_attr_t attr;
> pthread_attr_init(&attr);
> pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, MY_STACK_SIZE);
>
> pthread_create(&tid, &attr, some_fun, some_arg);
>
> Error checking here and there and everything should be fine.
>
> JD
>
>

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