Subj : Re: Best possible stack size for a thread
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 05:53 am


<karthikeyan.jambulingam@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1126855233.428611.14370@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

> I am new to this group and am creating a pthread . The stacksize
> allocated by the Linux OS (without any setstacksize) seems to be around
> 2 MB ( calculated using getstacksize) . I need to know is such a large
> stack size required for the thread to function . How can I find out a
> optimal value for the stack size of a thread ?? .

    There is no harm in the stack being overly large so long as you don't 
run out of address space. Just leave the default.

    DS

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