From: Stanley Allen <sallen@ghgcorp.com>
Subject: Re: How to set stack size of main task?
Date: 1996/10/05
Date: 1996-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <325608E8.C1B@ghgcorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct2.075609.1@eisner
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> On VMS, the main stack will "expand" when it runs out, although as
> with any well-behaved operating system there are limits on how much
> virtual memory can be spent in this endeavor (preventing an individual
> user from filling the pagefile, for example).
>
Have you checked this? I made a simple recursive main program for
DEC Ada on VMS about 7 years ago (yes, I know that's ancient history),
which had no terminating condition -- infinitely recursive. This
was a test of just this feature.
Apparently I did fill up the page file because the system crashed
for an hour or two. I remember that I was working for {company X},
it was about 11:00am and the big VAX machine had about 80 users...
I don't think the system administrators ever knew it was my fault...
I kept my mouth shut... deleted the library....
Stanley Allen
sallen@ghgcorp.com
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-27 0:00 How to set stack size of main task? Volker.Lendecke
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Stephen & Tammy House
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Stanley Allen [this message]
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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