From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T02:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

Glenn Parker wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>> 09:49:48 [source]: uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 bond 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown 
>> unknown
>> Cygwin
>> 09:51:46 [source]: ruby -v
>> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-cygwin]
>> 09:51:49 [source]: ulimit
>> unlimited
> 
> 
> For the simple test, my system stops at 1299 levels while yours goes all 
> the way to 13283.  It is very interesting that you get literally ten 
> times the amount of stack space with the cygwin version of Ruby that I 
> get using the one-click installer version of Ruby.

I think you may be able to use EDITBIN to change the stack size on
'native' Windows binaries. It's probably a part of VS or something,
though.

Or you could update to Win98 and edit CONFIG.SYS :)

> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Zounds 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown 
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]
> 
> $ ulimit -a
> core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
> data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
> open files                    (-n) 256
> pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
> stack size            (kbytes, -s) 2043
> cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes            (-u) 63
> virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) 2097152
> 
> What does "ulimit -a" report in your environment?

E