Ilya Zakharevich on Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:16:48 -0500


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Re: 4GB stack size


On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0500, Igor Schein wrote:
> I have a machine with 4GB of RAM, but gp limits me to 2GB of
> stack.  I tried changing VERYBIGINT to 2^32-1, but then it tells
> me "not enough memory".  How does gp grow stack anyway?  Looks
> like it tries to allocate the whole stack in one chunk.  Can that
> be changed?

Do you mean that your malloc() does not allow sizes above 2^31-1?
Complain to your vendor, then.

Ilya