[Zope] Zope, FreeBSD and core dump :(

Chris McDonough chrism at zope.com
Wed Sep 24 12:12:48 EDT 2003


Andrew Sawyers has just created a HowTo which can be used to increase
thread stack space under BSD for Python:

http://www.zope.org/Members/ensane/HowTo.2003-09-24.2929

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:31, Chris McDonough wrote:
> By the way, a while back someone offered to create an executable that
> would check for the stack space size on BSD that could be used during
> Zope configuration in the future.  I haven't heard anything about this
> lately, but it would be helpful.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 06:16, george donnelly wrote:
> > [Chris McDonough wrote (chrism at zope.com) on 9/23/03 2:28 PM]
> > 
> > > Also, FreeBSD has a very small default thread stack size (64k), which
> > > can cause core dumps in highly recursive applications (such as Zope).
> > > This was a problem at least for Python 2.1 on BSD.  I don't use BSD so
> > > I'm not sure if it carries over into the 2.2 series.
> > 
> > this was supposedly patched and up-to-date ports collections should now have
> > a good python 2.1.3. anyone building 2.1.3 on freebsd should read the
> > Makefile first tho as you may want to enable some options for this.
> > 
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