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Re: bump default U-area size



I was afraid of this as stack overflows are a pain to debug :-(  I'll see
if I can't get more information on it.  Originally, using
KSTACK_CHECK_MAGIC I was able to overflow the stack using "dd
if=/dev/rwd0e of=/dev/null bs=64k"

//Jesse Off

> Indeed - note it's amount of memory consumed per process, so the value
> should be as small as possible. Perhaps there is some 'big' structure
> allocated on stack in the code?
>
> Jaromir
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