> I believe you hit stack size limit, which is 2MB on NetBSD by default.

That's it, it works if I set it to a higher value using ulimit.

This is a problem for Linux emulation: programs that use Linux kernel
threads use a 2MB stack gap between each thread stack. 

Is the correct solution to just tell Linux binaries users to use ulimit?

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