On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:51 AM, David Sommerseth
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> On 04/08/14 00:07, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> 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.

You are correct. If I recall correctly, Red Hat historically has used
4k stacks on 32-bit kernels because of the benefits it provides (or so
upstream says) for systems running large numbers of threads. The x64
kernel source never had the CONFIG_4KSTACKS configuration item.

Brandon Vincent