Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-26 Thread Steven Kreuzer
On Mar 25, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: I've run and written quite a bit of Python (including Trac, Mailman, the Python IDE, our own custom stuff [like some log munging and web processing stuff], and even a

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Steven Kreuzer skreu...@exit2shell.comwrote: To me, it seems like the best behavior would be to default to compiling with that set. I'll create a patch over the weekend and open a PR Django and twisted don't need it. If the only app which does is zope,

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/26/10 14:03, Steven Kreuzer wrote: So, it seems like most of the time python scripts will work with HUGE_STACK_SIZE turned off, but every once and a while some scripts will fail in non obvious ways that could leave a person scratching their head for weeks trying to get to the bottom

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Doug Barton wrote: On 03/26/10 14:03, Steven Kreuzer wrote: So, it seems like most of the time python scripts will work with HUGE_STACK_SIZE turned off, but every once and a while some scripts will fail in non obvious ways that could leave a person scratching their head for weeks trying to get

python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-24 Thread Steven Kreuzer
A coworker of mine got bit by this bug on and off for the last few weeks and it appears he might not be the only one as documented in this blog: http://tomster.org/blog/archive/2006/09/27/size-does-matter If python needs to be compiled with HUGE_STACK_SIZE on FreeBSD, is there a reason to

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-24 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [freebsd-python@ cc'ed] On 2010/03/24 15:20, Steven Kreuzer wrote: A coworker of mine got bit by this bug on and off for the last few weeks and it appears he might not be the only one as documented in this blog:

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Xin LI wrote: If python needs to be compiled with HUGE_STACK_SIZE on FreeBSD, is there a reason to provide the option to not compile python with it, or at the very least, should it default to being on? Ah, yes this is the thing I turn on on all systems

Re: python and HUGE_STACK_SIZE

2010-03-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: I've run and written quite a bit of Python (including Trac, Mailman, the Python IDE, our own custom stuff [like some log munging and web processing stuff], and even a few graphical Python games) without ever turning