[bug][FIX] stack overflow crashes Squeak. ( [et] no effect on windows )

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Fri Jul 2 16:37:15 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Alexander at Lazarevic.de wrote:
> 
> Even with the fix in place the low space watcher does not kick in to
> handle the situation of an infinite recursion on windows. I *guess*
> there is no upper memory bound for squeak on windows (or at least I
> don't know how to change that) and so the low space watcher process in
> squeak does not get signaled until swap space runs out. On linux there
> is a different situation when you start the vm with an explicit memory
> limit (otherwise it should be the same as on windows). I would say this

Newer Linux VM's grow memory dynamically, and do not start with any
explicity memory limit.



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