[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:45:38 +0100


On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 12:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes:
>
>> I'm +0 on this. The reason I'm not +1 is that 2MB is just as
>> arbitrary as 1MB,
>
> Not quite; it's also the stack size passed to pthreads IIRC.  So after
> ulimit -s 2048 all threads get the same stack size (I think).

On MacOSX the pthread default stack size is 512K, which is the same as 
the default stack ulimit.
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