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

[Skip Montanaro]

    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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