> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:41:30 +0200 (MEST)
> From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Stack size limit?
>
>There are always ways to do weired things and to bring the system down
>unless you set up limits that make th
perhaps one should let TeX automatically set a stack
> size limit, roughly what
> ulimit -s 1024 or so would do.
There are always ways to do weired things and to bring the system down
unless you set up limits that make the system unusable. I don't think
that adding such a
tex '\def~{\if~}~'
My system (linux with 2.4.19 kernel) get slower, but tex is stopped with
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=251].
after a few seconds.
> That's bad. So perhaps one should let TeX automatically set a stack
> size limit, roughly what
> u
bad. So perhaps one should let TeX automatically set a stack
size limit, roughly what
ulimit -s 1024
or so would do. After all, TeX is known to have potentially unlimited
stack growth, so when the OS has a mechanism for keeping growth
limited, and when unlimited growth is a known cause for trouble..
