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

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:52:33 -0500 (CDT) 

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

Makes no difference:

% ./python
Python 2.0b1 (#81, Aug 31 2000, 15:53:42)  [GCC 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
>>>
% ulimit -a
core file size (blocks)     0
data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
file size (blocks)          unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes)  unlimited
max memory size (kbytes)    unlimited
open files                  1024
pipe size (512 bytes)       8
stack size (kbytes)         unlimited
cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
max user processes          2048
virtual memory (kbytes)     unlimited
% ./python Misc/find_recursionlimit.py
...
Limit of 2300 is fine
recurse
add
repr
init
getattr
getitem
Limit of 2400 is fine
recurse
add
repr
Segmentation fault

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