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From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Stack limit is too small
In-Reply-To: karl@NeoSoft.com's message of Sat, 5 Dec 1992 06:55:07 GMT
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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 17:57:38 GMT
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In article <Byrxvz.LCG@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
xxgdb blows out when sucking in wish's 3.4 MB of symbols. Gnuware's
fondness for alloca and such makes the default maxstack of 512K seem
uncomfortably small, and just another limit to stop otherwise perfectly
working programs. (sigh)
bash users will want to do a "ulimit -s 4096", or more.
csh users, well, RTFM.
% limit stacksize 4096
seems to be the command you are looking for.
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