Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:02:12 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting the default MAX Stack size Message-ID: <200107191602.MAA23206@illustrious.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:36:36 PDT." <01071908363603.07804@snoopy>
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> > > So I have a need to increase the max stack size in the kernel. There > > > currently is no knob to do this. I though of implementing it like > > > the max data size knob (MAXDSIZ). Is this the best answer or should > > > it maybe be done via read only sysctl (and then can be set in the > > > /boot/loader.conf)? I know how to do the former, but I am not sure > > > about the latter. > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > Change your code to not use so much auto variable space; if > > you are using this much space, you need to rethink your > > algorithm. > > The program that is being used is by one of our developers and it > is using recursion internally to do smog particle simulation over > many frames (visual effects). Or systems are installed with > 2GB of memory and they set there stack size to 128MB (from 64MB). > > The program could write its data out to disk, but then the > performance gets killed. > > We also had to knock up the stack size on the linux systems that > these programs are actually developed on. How about something like options MAXSSIZ="(256UL*1024*1024)" in your config file? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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