[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix, etc
Skip Montanaro
skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:10:26 -0500 (CDT)
Charles> I am utterly unable to reproduce this. With "ulimit -s
Charles> unlimited" and a no-threads version of Python,
Charles> "find_recursionlimit" ran overnight on my system and got up to
Charles> a recursion depth of 98,400 before I killed it off.
Mea culpa. It seems I forgot the "ulimit -s unlimited" command. Keep your
theory, but get a little more memory. It only took me a few seconds to
exceed a recursion depth of 100,000 after properly setting the stack size
limit... ;-)
Skip