From: Luke Graham <spoooq@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T11:52:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:25:01 +0900, Eric Anderson <eric@afaik.us> wrote:
> Tim Bates wrote:
> > After a bit of research, I've discovered that Gentoo by default doesn't
> > have a stack size limit. Watch: (using the bash builtin `ulimit`)

I used to run gentoo (and will again), and I always turned
swap off for the reason mentioned... runaway
processes are hard to kill when the machine is
thrashing. It might not be an option if you have less than
say, 0.5 gig of ram, but I never once had trouble with
a legit process because of it.

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