I think the reason was that when Visual Studio 6 was used to build VTK it used to run out of stack space necessitating the large value that needed to be set.
I am pretty sure that this was the case because I think I was one of the people who noted this problem in the "old days"! Andrew On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Sahn Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know the reason behind this, but this is how we unset it: > > # > # Remove /STACK:10000000 set by CMake. This value for stack size > # is very high, limiting the number of threads we can spawn. > # Default value used by Windows is 1MB which is good enough. > # > STRING(REGEX REPLACE "/STACK:[0-9]+" "" > CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS}") > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Christian Ehrlicher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't understand the reason behind this. We've a very huge memory >> footprint because of this on kde4/windows - kded4.exe has ~30 Threads >> which means 300MB of stack! >> >> Is there an easy way to change this? >> >> >> Thx, >> Christian >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >> > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > -- ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean Centre for Autonomous Systems The Rose Street Building J04 The University of Sydney 2006 NSW AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 9351 3283 Fax: +61 2 9351 7474 URL: http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/ ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
