On Llu, 2005-11-14 at 23:19 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in > kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations. And Linux 8086 uses 512 byte kernel stacks, and really wants a bit of tuning to get down to 256. Its about discipline and design not year - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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