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Hello,

        I just bought Absoft f77, which works fine but for
one thing: Everything must compile with a -s flag to force
static storage which results in huge executable files.
        Absoft support tells that it comes from a new
limitation in kernels 2.0.x (and up) that limits the stack size
to 8 Mo per process.
        Does anybody know a way to change this either
        * By passing an option somewhere (where), or
        * By recompiling the kernel (How)?

        Thank you.
                                Jacques Le Bourlot

                                Observatoire de Meudon - France

PS: I act as a super user on my Linux box butI am not an expert!
        -> anything cryptic will probably be useless...

Quote:> Hello,

>    I just bought Absoft f77, which works fine but for
> one thing: Everything must compile with a -s flag to force
> static storage which results in huge executable files.
>    Absoft support tells that it comes from a new
> limitation in kernels 2.0.x (and up) that limits the stack size
> to 8 Mo per process.
>    Does anybody know a way to change this either
>    * By passing an option somewhere (where), or
>    * By recompiling the kernel (How)?

e.g, on my machine

dawa# ulimit -s
8192
dawa# ulimit -s 32768
dawa# ulimit -s
32768

Two points to note

The default limit is indeed 8M - it is defined by the following around
line 293 in sched.h

#define _STK_LIM        (8*1024*1024)

the comment above this definition reads

/*
 * Limit the stack by to some sane default: root can always
 * increase this limit if needed..  8MB seems reasonable.
 */

Which leads me to my second point - the stack size limit can't be raised by
"ordinary" users, only root. Once raised the limit applies to the current
process and any children of that process.

Regards

Paul.