[Zope-dev] Core Dump (Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, FreeBSD 4.5)

[Tim Peters]

[Jeffrey P Shell]
> We had similar problems with Python 2.1.3 (it's a pretty infamous
> Python+FreeBSD problem, AFAICT), and I thought that it was patched in
> the Python core by now as I thought I heard something along those
> lines a while back, but I may have been hearing about the patch being
> applied to the BSD 'ports' collection.

I don't think anything relevant changed in the Python core, apart from
special-casing regexp tests on FreeBSD to have ever-lower expectations.
Googling suggests that the "BSD 'ports' collection" (I have no understanding
of what that means, though) added a Makefile option

    WANT_HUGE_STACK_SIZE

which, if specified, causes FreeBSD to give threads the same stack size most
other OSes give by default.  It's an interesting meaning for "huge", anyway
<wink>.