Re: help with huge memory consumption??

Rainer Weikusat <rainer.weikusat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
By definition, threads run in the same address space and each
thread as access to the memory all other threads have access
to, too (assuming it has a pointer pointing into first).

If all the memory is marked as shared (with the exception of
the stacks) this puts a lot of memory pressure on the heap.
A special thread-safe heap-only malloc() may be needed.

Bugs can also propagate since all threads can trample the heap.
It won't even stop buffer overflow exploits except to the extent
that more buffers wind up on the heap. And thread generation will
need to know how many bytes of params to copy to the new stack.

-- Robert


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