simple pthread consumes memory

[Lothar Werzinger]

balazs wrote:

> Hi - I start a simple pthread and the program consumes about 10 Mbytes of
> virtual memory. If I start 10 threads, it consumes 100 Mbytes.

That's off topic, but the answer is that the default stack size for a thread
on your machine seems to be 10M. If you know you don't need such a large
stack, you can specify a custom stack size when creating the thread.