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 linux kernel, RHEL5, etc etc. Why is Python overloading the meaning of the ulimit -s like this? There are plenty of real non-python programs with huge stack usage, and I'd like my system default stack limit to be less than unlimited but much larger than Python will allow. -- greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list