--- El jue 13-oct-11, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > this is what I am not clear, do those 10 threads allocate 8 > MB each? > or 8 MB total? remember that threads share address space by > default... > I am sorry maybe I explained myself incorrectly, threads don't actually allocate anything; just mmap it's own stack space (8MB each). I looked at the link you provided me and I found this: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.0.4/mm/mmap.c#L112 mmap.c, line 112: vm_enough_memory() It seems here is where the mm subsystem decides to fail with ENOMEM and uses commit parameters to decide... I found it most interesting. Ezequiel. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
