Thread memory allocation question

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Ken Brownfield 

| When looking at /proc/map info for varnish threads, I'm seeing the  
| following allocations in numbers that essentially match the child count:
| 
| 0000000040111000   8192K rw---    [ anon ]

Looks like the default stack size.

| And this at almost double the child count:
| 
| 00007f4d57900000   1024K rw---    [ anon ]

Unsure what this is.

| I noticed some pretty intense memory usage when I had a backend issue  
| and the thread count increased into the hundreds.  Obviously the  
| threads will need memory as they scale, but are these large  
| allocations intentional, and are they tunable (beyond the relatively  
| small workspaces?)

You should be able to tune it using ulimit -s.  If you turn it too low,
things will break, though.

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