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    The amount of virtual address space allocated for a user mode stack on a modern OS is likely to be at least 64kB or larger by default (1MB on Windows). Are you talking about kernel stack sizes? Commented Oct 3, 2008 at 3:19
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    On my machine, the default stack size for a process is 8MB, not kB. How old is your computer? Commented Jan 28, 2009 at 14:27