> I see. I should be blaming the default behavior of pthreads.
You shouldn't blame anybody. Instead, you should sit down and study
the problem in detail, until you fully understand it. Then you should
start contributing fixes. Never ever should you spread blame.
Regards,
Martin
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> Always crashing because I asked the OS to please not allow a process
> to grow too big is what I call overloading the meaning of ulimit -s.
Please trust that there is no explicit code in the Python interpreter
that tests whether the stack size is 4GB, and then produces an explicit
crash.
> It's
I see. I should be blaming the default behavior of pthreads. I did
work on a OpenMP library once, and we worked around this problem, plus
we gave good error messages. Given the number of HPC sites which use
Python, I'd think that Python would have grown similar features. (HPC
sites are more likely
Greg Lindahl wrote:
I figure this is a FAQ, but I can't find it in any FAQs.
I want to limit the stacksize on my server.
If I set it to 8 megs, or unlimited, python is happy.
If I set it to 4 gigabytes, things like yum (which is a python
program) crash creating a thread. This is on an x86_64 l
> Why do you think Python is overloading the meaning of that? I ensure
> you it isn't - it doesn't actively care what the limits are.
Always crashing because I asked the OS to please not allow a process
to grow too big is what I call overloading the meaning of ulimit -s.
It's quite surprising. Not
> But even if that worked, I'd be worried that python is doing something
> bad with the ulimit -s value under the covers.
Again: it definitely isn't.
Regards,
Martin
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> How much higher? You could try just under 4GB (unsigned 32-bit) and just
> under 2GB (signed 32-bit).
I'd like to set it to be about 1/2 the memory size of my server, which
happens to end up being 4 gbytes. And no, slightly less than 4 gb
doesn't work.
But even if that worked, I'd be worried th
> Why is Python overloading the meaning of the ulimit -s like this?
Why do you think Python is overloading the meaning of that? I ensure
you it isn't - it doesn't actively care what the limits are.
Regards,
Martin
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Greg Lindahl wrote:
I'm only guessing, but could it be a 32-bit limit somewhere? Have you
tried, say, 1GB, which would be within a 32-bit limit?
Indeed, ulimit -s 100 (a bit smaller than 1 GB) does work, but it
doesn't solve my problem, since I want to set the limit higher than 1
GB.
How m
> I'm only guessing, but could it be a 32-bit limit somewhere? Have you
> tried, say, 1GB, which would be within a 32-bit limit?
Indeed, ulimit -s 100 (a bit smaller than 1 GB) does work, but it
doesn't solve my problem, since I want to set the limit higher than 1
GB.
-- greg
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Greg Lindahl wrote:
I figure this is a FAQ, but I can't find it in any FAQs.
I want to limit the stacksize on my server.
If I set it to 8 megs, or unlimited, python is happy.
If I set it to 4 gigabytes, things like yum (which is a python
program) crash creating a thread. This is on an x86_64 l
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