Change default stacksize

Lester M. Petrie Jr. petrielmjr at ornl.gov
Thu Nov 1 16:39:44 UTC 2012


On Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:29:12 AM Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/01/2012 06:10 AM, Lester M. Petrie Jr. issued this missive:
> > The default stacksize on my machine (Fedora 17, KDE) is apparently 8Mb.
> > I think that ridiculous. A long time ago I knew how to change it, but I
> > have forgotten what I knew, and it probably wouldn't work now anyway. So
> > how do I set the default stacksize (what a user gets if they don't
> > specify anything)? Thanks.
> 
> Uhm, add a /etc/security/limits.d/s80-stack.conf file and put in
> 
> 	*	hard	stack	32768
> 	*	soft	stack	16384
> 
> and reboot?
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Thanks.  That is just what I was looking for.

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