Re: Re: "Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted" installing www/php4

[Martin Husemann <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> I tried to change as much as possible (with ulimit and sysctl) but the
> issue is still there :(

The maximum stack size is arch dependend - and for obscure reasons (this has
to be changed!) on sparc64 limited to 8 MB.

So, unfortunately, there is not much at this level that you can easily change
right now. The real question, however, is *why* the application needs such
a huge stack. This is probably an application bug.

Martin