[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions? (original) (raw)

Charles G Waldman cgw@fnal.gov
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:45:15 -0500

Skip Montanaro writes:

 211MB swap
 Mandrake Linux 7.1

It spits out 2400 as the last successful test, even fresh after a reboot with no swap space in use and lots of free memory and nothing else running besides boot-time daemons.

I get the exact same value. Of course the amount of other stuff running makes no differemce, you get the core dump because you've hit the RLIMIT for stack usage, not because you've exhausted memory. Amount of RAM in the machine, or swap space in use has nothing to do with it. Do "ulimit -s unlimited" and see what happens...

There can be no universally applicable default value here because different people will have different rlimits depending on how their sysadmins chose to set this up.