Re: stack size

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:38:20AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> With amd 64 etch (NUMA 4 dual-opteron, 24 GB RAM, set with shmmax) it was suggested (for heavy calculations) to set 'stack size' to 'unlimited'.
> 
> At each new boot, I do that with 
> 
> $ ulimit -s unlimited
> 
> thus changing the stack size from usual 8192 kbytes. If there is no drawback in setting 'stack size' to u'nlimited', how do set that permanently?

Look at the file /etc/security/limits.conf

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Len Sroensen