On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 8:51 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
Gordan Bobic wrote:
> It may be simpler to approach the question from the other side, i.e. is
> there anything that actually ever needs more than 1MB of stack space? If
> there is, I haven't seen it in the decade since I've been using this tweak
> with various Fedora derived distributions.

I've more than once had Java applications crash with a StackOverflowError
because Java has such a retarded 1 MiB default stack size independently of
the amount of available RAM. (You have to explicitly use the -Xss parameter
to get more.) It happened at least once in Java code and at least once in
C++ code interfaced through JNI.

So I don't think 1 MiB is a reasonable default stack size for
general-purpose computers, though it might make sense on ARM.

Right, but is it better that _everything_ else suffers with more memory pressure for the handful of relatively infrequent use cases for which ulimit can be used to explicitly raise the limit?