I'm getting ready to start a 7 hour challenge from my cousin to write a Elite style game called Ex Astris today. Actually, my version is inspired by Space Trader.
Last night I got the latest version of Ubuntu installed as I did not currently have a development environment set up at home that would allow me to do graphical Linux development.
During the course of debugging a potential memory leak at work I noticed that Linux seems to allocate at least 8M of memory for each thread created.
This very simple test program illustrates the memory allocations:
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