Hi, background: we are using python 2.4.3 on CentOS 5.3 with many threads - and our shell's default stack size limit is set to 10240KB (i.e. ~10MB).
we noticed that python's Threading module appears to create threads with this value as their stack size (we ran a sample program that creates 10 threads and measured its virtual memory size, then reduced the stack size limit of the shell to 5120KB - and saw that the program's virtual memory size was reduced by ~50MBs). the problem: our program uses numerous threads, and thus the virtual memory size gets to be very large. we would like to reduce the size of the stack to reduce this size. we were looking for information about recommendation for the stack size to use, but found none. questions: 1. is there some rule-of-thumb for the recommended stack size for python programs of various sorts? 2. is there a way for us, at runtime (from inside the code or outside the process), to find how much of a thread's stack we are using (in KB or some other size units)? 3. when we define local objects - do the objects themselves get allocated on the stack - or are they allocated on the heap and only references to them are kept on the stack? 4. would the size of the stacks (which are probably not really allocated by the linux virtual memory sub-system, unless used) have a noticeable performance effect on a python program? same question regarding the use of a large number of threads? thanks, Eyal
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