On 04/08/14 00:07, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> Running a 4k stack size on a 32-bit kernel and XFS is mostly reliable,
> but is notorious for causing stack overflows (typically with high load
> and other heavy system utilization). It is for that reason that
> upstream has always maintained the position of "Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux does not support XFS on 32-bit machines".

I'd say the issue is more 4k stacks than 32-bit.  But I might be wrong.
 I also thought that support for 4k stacks had been removed [1].  That
article also mentions that even the default 8K stack size can sometimes
be too small for XFS.

[1] <https://lwn.net/Articles/600644/>


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David Sommerseth