On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:21:31 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said: > > And all of that has to fit in 8K of stack. That's why we warn when things have > > a large stack frame entry. > I still don't understand why the 8K barrier ? Why can't we make it say 16K ? The issue is that then you need 4 contiguous pages for fork() to succeed, which can become a problem if memory gets fragmented. The chances of being able to find 2 contiguous pages are *much* higher than 4.
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