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In article <34982C99.97199F5F@activetouch.com>,
Joss Shen  <sj@activetouch.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The source code size of the driver is over 10Mb (it's true!). At first,
>it's written to run in WinNT4.0, and it really exceeded NT's 4Kb stack
>limit and make NT down. I don't think i could modify local variables to
>static by my hand and it will produce re-entry problems to functions.

Using static variables would be a very bad idea in kernel software.
Try to alllocate dynamic memory on demand.

>Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> 
>> In article <3496CC94.79F5CCA@activetouch.com>,
>> Joss Shen  <sj@activetouch.com> wrote:
>> >Hi there,
>> >
>> >I'm doing a big network driver under Banyan Vines 7.0 (derived from AT&T
>> >SysV source tree). My problem is: the default 4K stack size is too small
>> >to my driver, how can i expand it to e.g. 8Kb? Is there any tunable
>> >parameter could make it done easily?
>> 
>> Modify your driver so that it does not have too much local (automatic) vars
>> inside the functions. I cannot believe that the 4k limit is is reached because
>> of recursion or procedure calls.
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