My understanding is the second page of that 8 KB is allocated in a virtual memory sense, not a physical one. As the stack grows once it is larger than 4 KB ther

My understanding is the second page of that 8 KB is allocated in a virtual memory sense, not a physical one. As the stack grows once it is larger than 4 KB there will be a page fault and the 2nd page will become backed. So the memory situation should be no worse then before this change was made... The guy having issues in that thread was trying to handle major load with a machine with < 8 GB of memory. All my production boxes have 128-256 GB... I had some 16 and 32 GB for a long time with no issues.