[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:33:28PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> > At least for my Linux installation a limit of 9000 seems
> > reasonable. Perhaps everybody on the list could do a quick
> > check on their platform ?
> 
> On BSDI, which has a 2Mbyte default stack limit (but soft limit: users can
> set it higher even without help from root, and much higher with help) I can
> go as high as 8k recursions of the simple python-function type, and 5k
> recursions of one involving a C call (like a recursive __str__()).

Ok, this give us a 5000 limit as default... anyone with less ;-)

(Note that with the limit being user settable making a lower limit
 the default shouldn't hurt anyone.)

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