Re: (another) problem with mntlib41 tfork() function

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Claus Brod <clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com> writes:

|>> So the thread comes up, works a bit and goes down again, leaving the basepage
|>> memory assigned to the caller, who doesn't know about this and therefore won't
|>> free it. To be more precicly: Each thread costs me 16K (memprot) which are lost
|>> forever.

|> Why 16 KB? I thought the granularity was 8 KB, and the basepage should
|> be only one page.

8 KB for the basepage and 8 KB for the environment.

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