RE: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2

Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-14T18:33:19Z

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:22 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > Interesting. If you're exceeding your stack ulimit, you should be
> > > seeing either an "argument list too long" message or getting a
> > > SIGSEGV. Have you tried bypassing wc and piping the output straight
> > > to a file?
> >
> > I think it sends SIGKILL on failure paths.
>
> Setting stack limit to unlimited I managed to exec with 10MB, and
> "wc" produced the correct output when it (finally) ran, so no
> odd limits being hit in there.

Ah, good :-)

> Ah ... running the 34*100K case direct from my shell prompt, I
> do see a "Killed" that must get lost when I run this in the
> shell script loop.

Yes, so it seems we just trip the stack limit after we cross the point
of no return.

I started looking into growing the stack beforehand and perhaps
shrinking the stack after we're done. That would get most if not all
these failures before the point of no return.